Eve was a lesbianwho loved Mary with a passionthat cracked the world. God was so jealoushe ground them downto oblivion. The tears of Mother Earthcarved furrowsin her cheeks. Now their bodiesbleed a red river that […]

Eve was a lesbianwho loved Mary with a passionthat cracked the world. God was so jealoushe ground them downto oblivion. The tears of Mother Earthcarved furrowsin her cheeks. Now their bodiesbleed a red river that […]
It’s not living on the street,shut out from shelter.It’s not hunger—satiety deniedon desert days of need. It’s self-suspicion,doubts dogging every action,feeling responsible for a ruptured family; watching a mother’s partitioned minddemolish childhood hopes, thenunraveling knitted […]
I’ve been letting the tiny snakesrattle around my brain,until one is unleashedlike a tongue,eliciting some wound you’drather forget,elucidating the long and windyoutcome of memory gone extinct. What if we let ourselves become animals?What if we […]
It doesn’t come with ease. They tell you that“life isn’t fair” with gusto,with pleasing remorse.They tell you that nothing will change. Are you at ease? Do you feel me? I feel the chatterand short intakes […]
here’s how things are named:a) like they areb) like we want them to be. I was born with a namewoven into my intestines.mother said she hadn’t noticed.father doesn’t knowbecause he was never there. mother once […]
Lady Justice news of her deathrushes through meand it takes a minuteto process the meaningbecause I’ve been in denialfor years that we’re justpounding nails into ourown coffin and this year’sa banner year for nails Can’t […]
Photograph by Venus De Milo. Life Story They said mustaches are illegal ifyou habitually kiss people.That we can’t carry ice creamin our back pockets on Sundaysbut can marry at fifteenwith parental consent.They said women can’t […]
Spring 2020 At first light they start. The latest scourge has cometo me by computer screen:digital images and soundsof the breathless, the dying.Voices of the millionsgathered in revolt. Removedby two hours from New York,I am […]
He threw in the farm he envisioned,a thick shawl of trees surroundingstraight seams of feed corn,cattle dotting generous pastures. He tossed in the househe’d never have with a wifedeported, everything sold to paya lawyer who […]
Cities are ablaze,ablaze with shame,babies born into skinmade wrong, sorekeening for theirmothers, sisters ofliberty done crying,wring our woesto their rhythm. Cities are ablaze,ablaze with shame,throats ripped inbroad daylight ona busy city street,sisters of libertydone crying,wring […]