The Chaotic Good

My grandma says boobs are where all the power comes from, "But those are not Pretenders," as she gestures toward my shirt. All our blood...

About 20 years ago my grandparents were held up at gunpoint at an ATM by three men. My grandmother got away & called the cops By the time...

My mother says I have to sweep she says "it goes that fast" she says "the French say the presentation's half the taste'" & "cook it until...

After Chelsie Diane's on me wanting to make love to me like only i could make love to me I WANT TO THROW HER INTO THE FIRE Is an asterisk...

Have you ever shared a blanket with a god? Nights with America's Next Top Model reruns Spilled nail polish on the carpet The bottle we...

I am candle & sun I feel me & I am nourished Electric flesh Chlorophyll to stamen Milky crane settling on mirrored river Lily first...

Dreaming of being saved I found myself enslaved. Hoping for something sent I wasted the energy spent. Realizing I had crumbled I grew to...

An open cottage window white linen in sunshine a tickling breeze & Easter grass beyond. Silver haired wet faced wrinkled knuckles as...

You are stunning And I am silent. You are yearning And I am violent. You are pulling And I am here. You are calamity And I am fear.

Your eyes sting of sorrow And your heart is full of woe Your skin remembers misery & these things just won't let go. Your fingertips are...

In what ways did I devour you? In what manner were you consumed? Did I completely annihilate you? Do you need to be exhumed? In what...

There is peace. And there is an abundance of struggle. True danger. Raw strength. And a casual brutality among the leaves & the living....

Doctor! Please, help! Is there a pill I can take? You see, I've got this thing I can't seem to shake. I'll try anything. A bandage? An...