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.

Love is a big place an easy find a quick elevator ride

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...

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

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...

White, straight teeth, with lifts in his shoes. Money can't make you taller, but it can buy you french food. If he asks you on a date,...

She romanticized being a divorcee: a former love-believer turned cynic, rebel of familial norms, brandishing her scarlet letter with...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

How often I've imagined your voice after coffee; the sound like scratching; the smell like desert. How often I've imagined your fingers...

The vastness of her legs and stomach belong to a higher power. She is not owner, but vassal of her figure; supplying their demand.

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

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...

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.

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

I made this mess in the thick of you; the tangled, stuffy bits with their shades of distrust their claws.

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...

Do you remember me as I am? I lean against your empty wall or as you wanted me to be?

Nothing breathes here, not the way you're supposed to where you give back what you take in.

Men will no longer sexually objectify us--because that’s not cool anymore--so we must do it for them.

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...

Some expertise in the emotional manipulation of conglomerates for capital gain. In this case, how to change a flight: I'd like to start...

The age of, "Are you staying for breakfast," wears off, as do the drugs.

LA in the summer. Birthday party in mid-city. You wore a cardigan; wide mouth and cartoon smile. Accent gave you away, home somewhere...

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...

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...

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...

He comes from the west. Sun spilling from his skin, collecting in small pools on my sheets--dirty with seasons of exchange. Our throats...

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...

He prays like the hopeless, the way their fingers lace across a bottle or a waist—fingers forgetting to whom they belong. Bible study...

An actor’s process is a delicate journey. Acting takes perseverance, preparation, and commitment (to the craft, not your significant...

I find you on Sunset Blvd with heavy eyes, lips cradling a cigarette. You pick me a white carnation from my neighbor's lawn--you thought...

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...

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...

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...

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...

You spend more time critiquing my jeans than trying to get in them. I tell you the tattoo of fire on your arm is hot (pun intended). You...

I don’t watch reality TV. I’m better than that. My ignorance leaves me standing on the corner of Santa Monica and Fairfax where a...

You worked at the gym and trained at the gym and ate at the gym and I hate the gym. Six months in, I found myself having erotic dreams...

You fucked like a republican. Photo By: Kelly Balch

You took me to fancy dinners and watched me eat with my hands. I nodded along to your work-talk as though I knew/cared about what you...

Wake up at 6am because “gains.” Put on Inside Lacrosse. Take a deep breath, inhale motivation, exhale negativity. Visualize winning....

Ταξίδευα στο πίσω μέρος του ποδηλάτου σας μέσα από τα βουνά της Ελλάδας. Με πήγες στην πατρίδα που ανήκε στον παππού σου. Μου είπες ότι...