Dont tell me about your new shoes and the trendy bars miles away from here. Tell me about red garnet beaded necklaces, the iron cladded muted stones of the depths transformed into the rarest and most cursed gems. Remind me how to speak in bends and curves, in ways how the body always does the…

I don’t feel that I am missing anything, and if I am I will gain it or it’ll come to me eventually. I have what I need in this place and in this time of my life. Unconvinced things will change, which is really alright by me now. This life I have isn’t something I…

The algorithm never said we were most compatible, now I’m taking advice from a 22 year old. The numbers and the calculations never met their ends like we surely did in the dead winter. Then I felt so young, became so young, reversed the clock in my bedsheets intermingled in grasps and nods. A smile,…

Your tongue scraping against my teeth and the cold breeze hitting my right cheek. Frozen and awkward desires in wandering neighborhoods I’ve never seen and wondering about how I could feel so good, feel so free, feel so fresh, feel so me. My head pounds in the heat of exhaustion or the heat of something…

Now I,the most passive of verbs, like autumn decaying my most decorated gourdspushed under freezing streams down on slabs of slate, rubbing out my inner colors the same as the dirtthat birthed me in the imaginary year of pre-zodiacs,when unknown forces decided to leave me unnamed.Then I,the most active of verbs, like forging my own…