Empress Indignant

Inspired by true events

Lena Drake

say

Look back say do you see me bigger or smaller than I really am say redolent of love skin cut open, red and beautiful say you wanted me...

Lena Drake

To the Midsommar extra who crashed my wedding

Wedding planning is the end of all things good. But you do it anyway because… YOLO? You decide to have it overseas because you’re a...

Lena Drake

Morning

The city begins where I end sun leaking into Athens day, a second chance Greece wakes even after they've named her dead they call what we...

Lena Drake

Precise Between

And once you’ve finished drying yourself out, take stock of what truths you find yourself shouting to strangers in bathrooms hoping that...

Lena Drake

Coop

I left the kind of wedding that made you want to get married. Oaks, live witnesses to promises you were sure they'd keep. Car ride home...

Lena Drake

the boy with three houses

Did you think I forgot you? Velvet hands and lifts in your shoes. Took the invitation to your house upstate where I worried we'd split...

αυτοκράτειρα αγανακτισμένη

1993

Just tell the story again, of the sparrows who flew from falling Rome, their blazed wings.

-Ocean Vuong

Los Angeles, CA