It’s 2 years before you birth your 1st child,
17 years before your 1st mammogram,
25 years before your 1st hot flash,
27 years before the students you’re tea...
When punk – and I use these words advisedly – ass teenagers look with pity or disdain on the middle-aged, they might say I don't want to get old and fat like th...
Our father used to own a donut shop. Every morning, he would wake up to yearning dough. Did you make old-fashioneds or Long Johns, we ask. He doesn’t understand...
The stray mutt relieving himself
on the abandoned Christmas tree
would need to be three-legged
and the tree would need to be burned
or at least bent at a si...
Looks like someone has to rush ghosts back to existence for an indexed
appearance. You’re tentative in light of their approaches to portraiture.
What did t...
My head is so full of stuff
That my nightly brain dump (sleep)
Is not enough
My brain is drawn to media
Like a drowned camel to water
I am forever thirst...
question #1
a question on the problem with the question “what should we do ?”
the question that asks / calls for / entices someone to stand up with an ans...
& I’ve already pieced it out in my head: From inside the house, I can hear the horses neighing in the backyard, waiting for their buckets to be filled with ...
There, a small twinge in my armpit,
I’m sure it’s nothing bad,
It’s happened for the last three days
I try not to think of that.
I try not to think about
T...
In the quiet corners of my mind,
I stand alone, a solitary figure,
Caught in the crossfire of time,
A dance with destiny, both fierce and obscure.
I am th...
no one’s seen any-
thing cause there’s so much
to see and doom-
scrolling eases our thumbs
soft and calloused alike,
which is why I assume
no one’s bo...
the nights spent in your basement. blowing smoke
through a fan pointed out the window. your family
shuffling above. my feet off the end of
the shag rug, heel...
the tops of my thighs were burning in the sun
before jumping into cold brown water in my
underwear and someone’s dad’s extra shirt. they said,
don’t tell her...
for alan
i could make a room holy out of anything earthly.
they don’t teach you that at princeton. they don’t say
what to say when that man makes his meticul...
Recently scrubbed low tops, fresh cat puke in lattice, pause the storm door’s hydraulic hymn,
the latest in responsibly sourced stained glass,
as fresh-s...
We observe families of deer nibbling sprouts and delivery men stacking packages on porches. We smell the earth after a rainstorm mingled with our neighbors’ smo...
I binge watch Intervention- is that an addiction?
The only cosmic irony is that the stars die long
before they hear us compliment their glittering gowns.
Som...
After the final scene of S1 E3 of The Sopranos, “Denial, Anger, Acceptance”
At my kid’s concerts, I see the montage:
Meadow Soprano sings a choir solo while
...
Our second spring, rowan unfurls at the foot of the chapel.
I reach for him, a trucker motel in one of the Carolinas—
this uncomplicated matter, these competi...
What’s the opposite of a capitalist. I’m you and you’re me but it seems strange. Ecofeminist. Seems, being the operative word. Progress versus connection. But i...
Nostalgia is a small, brassy machine that longs to be a rare fish. Chew it and it will taste of breastmilk. It is a robin and a chapel, but not lemongrass. ...
I saw a vampire
at the baths last week
mid-July, 1976, Tim
Dlugos notes
in his New York diaries. I seek
that undead
deserving an entire entry,
not noncha...
In a box where nothing justifies my blackness, I am the temperature of the sky a minute after sundown. Only apostasy and my lust for godhood have kept me away f...
Maybe I’m late to your work party on purpose and there’s a line to kiss the ring (your new boss’s ring) and she’s Silicon Valley cheekbones honeyed extensions c...
Late summer, hot heat, I navigate my wants, my
skincare, SPFs. It is Real Feel 114 degrees
and I cannot seem to get a fucking grip. My own
mother’s hands, he...
Matthew Perry died yesterday at 54.
This hit me hard. Maybe because I am 54 too.
& John Ritter was 54 when his heart gave out.
He was my first crush. I l...