Empress Indignant

Inspired by true events

dive on Friday night

He prays like the hopeless, the way their fingers lace across a bottle or a waist—forgetful. His church sits somewhere close, close...

the night to flee

Said he’s a martyr or maybe a snake Eyes emerald green mouth ready to take Told her be careful hunger makes a man cry Leapt into his arms...

Lover Meets Monster

WAITRESS: Can I take your order? He tells her he’d like to rip her apart limb by limb, eating up the pieces of her life one year at a time.

An ESL Program in Toledo, OH

For Claudia and Eleni-- In Toledo, Ohio there was not much, but there was a school with not much, but it did have a program to teach...

Don't Need You To See Me

I used to find you funny. You’re thinner now, like each year has eaten the pieces of your insides that used to make me laugh. I used to...

Unreliable

Forever, you say, is how we console children you don't believe in consolation but I am a child

αυτοκράτειρα αγανακτισμένη

1993

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

-Ocean Vuong

Los Angeles, CA