Come Home
And how is this the same body that bent at the small of the back, en route to the moon—stopstopSTOP—lest you arrive too soon.
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Empress Indignant
Lena Drake
Before we did we spoke before we spoke we wrote before we wrote we thought
- Jan 24
- 3 min
Narcissism is the new black
A friend sent me the Daily Motion video of Timothee being **insert sympathy-inducing words** Timothee. It's a fascinating video with an...
- Dec 10, 2022
- 1 min
Easy Find
Love is a big place an easy find a quick elevator ride
- Dec 6, 2022
- 1 min
Wet Dreams
He’s called three times, desperation is hereditary. Bad taste, dark blinds, sleeping beside him drains me. He cries for his mama and...
- Nov 8, 2022
- 1 min
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...
- Jul 10, 2022
- 3 min
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...
- Jun 23, 2022
- 1 min
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...
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
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...
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
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...
- Apr 21, 2022
- 1 min
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...
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
Pomegranate
In my dream you showed up out of nowhere, pomegranate in December. You were sweet and ready, like you weren’t before. The last time I saw...
- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min
Maria
She calls me lady as she takes my order as if I was someone to be respected. I am not, but look at the men red-faced with their distended...
- Jan 22, 2022
- 2 min
Divorce in the Summer
She must have always romanticized being a divorcee: a former love-believer turned cynic, rebel of familial norms, brandishing her scarlet...
- Jan 7, 2022
- 1 min
"I do"
She said I do not want to tell her to come back inside, her small heart already black and blue because he had better things to do. She...
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
Brunch Rush
She didn't fit in with the rich. The way they curdled at strangers and rose to greet the shameless. She'd rather serve than sit, knowing...
- Nov 22, 2021
- 1 min
40 years a woman
When she learned she grew less with life but swelled with stress. When they heard they sent gifts in boxes too big to fit what she'd...
- Nov 9, 2021
- 1 min
The Wild Girl
You’ll find her on Sunset Blvd heavy eyes, lips ajar. She picks a carnation, white, from the neighbor's lawn. Her face lifts and falls,...
- Nov 6, 2021
- 1 min
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...
- Oct 16, 2021
- 1 min
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...
- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
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.
- Aug 6, 2021
- 1 min
An ESL Program in Toledo, OH
For Claudia and Eleni-- Toledo, Ohio is nothing more than flat. Outside the city sat a school for learning English. 17 and 18 year old...
- Jun 23, 2021
- 1 min
Look, before
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...
- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
Unreliable
Forever, you say,
is how we console children
you don't believe in consolation
but I am a child
- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
Souvenir
How often I've imagined your voice after coffee; the sound like scratching; the smell like desert. How often I've imagined your fingers...
- Jan 15, 2021
- 1 min
Enemy
The vastness of her legs and stomach
belong to a higher power.
She is not owner, but vassal of
her figure; supplying their demand.
- Oct 27, 2020
- 1 min
to remember your face at night
Reaching across the clammy world
to remember your face at night
the cities we've stepped on
frenzied with drink
and the sounds of love
- Oct 24, 2020
- 1 min
Color One
If everything was blue our ending would appear happier; we'd call a break a beginning If everything was red my anger would dull against...
- Oct 2, 2020
- 1 min
In Another World
In another world, you took the 9am flight and moved into an apartment on Bleecker Street, so you could tell everyone you lived in New York.
- Sep 11, 2020
- 1 min
Delusion has a maternal instinct
Dinner is ready and the weather is great and I love my job and the kids are just fine and we have a trip planned for summer and isn't that s
- Aug 30, 2020
- 1 min
the thick of you
I made this mess
in the thick of you;
the tangled, stuffy bits
with their shades
of distrust
their claws.
- Aug 7, 2020
- 1 min
Letter to LA
I arrived much obliged, having waited quite some time to reside in Tinseltown. But what I’d marveled at from afar—what I thought were...
- Jul 15, 2020
- 1 min
A matter of perspective
Do you remember me as I am?
I lean against your empty wall
or as you wanted me to be?
- Jul 5, 2020
- 1 min
Sun, constant
Nothing breathes here, not the way you're supposed to
where you give back what you take in.
- Jun 28, 2020
- 3 min
Empowerment In 5 Easy Steps
Men will no longer sexually objectify us--because that’s not cool anymore--so we must do it for them.
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
Bad Lands
sweet boy, tired boy to the Bad Lands we go searching for eyes I can’t find anymore yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers with spines strong and...
- May 7, 2020
- 2 min
Phases of Procuring a Free Flight
Some expertise in the emotional manipulation of conglomerates for capital gain. In this case, how to change a flight: I'd like to start...
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
Stay for breakfast, or drugs
The age of, "Are you staying for breakfast," wears off, as do the drugs.
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Englishman
LA in the summer. Birthday party in mid-city. You wear a cardigan; wide mouth and cartoon smile. You say something about London, or...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 3 min
The Investment Banker
I went out with an investment banker and he couldn’t complete a sentence without yawning. But, I knew the 70-hour work week was worth it...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
The One Beside The Seine
I lost my name in the kinks of his upper lip Humming Nutini for the sky As it peeled back tenors of pink and red I alone survived him...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
The One In The Window
Thursday: Legs spill out of a window in Soho and we call to the ankles to let us up. Italian men and assorted models from the fancy parts...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
The Dancer
He comes from the west. Sun spilling from his skin, collecting in small pools on my sheets--dirty with seasons of exchange. Our throats...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Dismal Man
You’re dimmer than you were before they swallowed you whole. Before the sound of your heart aching was muffled by the black of somebody’s...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
The Alcoholic
He prays like the hopeless, the way their fingers lace across a bottle or a waist—fingers forgetting to whom they belong. Bible study...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
The Actor
An actor’s process is a delicate journey. Acting takes perseverance, preparation, and commitment (to the craft, not your significant...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
The Wild Boy
I find you on Sunset Blvd with heavy eyes, lips cradling a cigarette. You pick me a white carnation from my neighbors lawn--you thought...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Man In Motion
I used to look for your face, or a face that looked like yours, when the A would pass the C--as if it were a race, as if I was racing...
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
Just A Friend
It’s raining in New York. Your back against concrete and my face in your sweater. You're holding me for “warmth.” Your fingers move down...
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
My Friend's Boyfriend's Friend
Double date at The Spaniard. They pitched him for his jawline and that was enough to get me out of the house. Italian food in Midtown. He...
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
Adult Frat Boy
College basketball on every screen in soho. You were less memorable than the game. Your face reminds me of my first beer, of the first...
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