Writing
2026
Self-Portraits Hearten Being
They hold the moment, represent the face.
As artwork or pictorial snaps,
self-portraits capture visible traits.Two Boys , One Road
Five of them. Cloths over their faces. Only the eyes showing.
Don’t Flip Around. No Flipping.
I don't have a remote control in my hand
like I used to when I was watching television in the 90s
but I can still control everything I seeWhen the Black Swan Drowned.
BLACK SCREENThe words slowly appear on screen:"What, conceivably, is the worst story your mind can weave when the melodies of Tchaikovsky's…
Parting Ways with Her Long-Term Rental Agreement
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.
—The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean
It never sat wellMiriam
The kids in our group of friends discovered each other at Edison Junior High. The school was a…
In Ninth Grade, After You Painted Mother and Children by Diego Rivera
Don’t forget: hold somebody’s hand through the dark. —Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution…
Beings: Poems
iThe Architecture of a Stray Lock of Hair
Cristina had no idea—none—of what she could do to a room just by sitting in it. She would fold…
We the People’s Weather Report
The atmosphere shifted in ninth grade.
Thunderstorms controlled the air.
As if an anvilWhat “Never Again” Left Out
Tap, tap, tap. My pencil whispered, scribbling annotations onto the paper. Then, my eyes…
A Perpetual Burgeoning of Realisations of Absurdity
Berlin is a collection of former strangers
to their own homeland, current foreigners
in a strange land, outsiders who never felt at homeTerritorial Chaos: Insect Versus Human
—inspired by the painting Gemälde "Schleudern" by Michael Schoenholtz (Germany) 2014
—for my Longfellow neighbors, together in courage
iWhen partners mishandle their words
explode in opposition
nausea
chest painThread
is groupthink, massmind
the digital mob. You
become a politician of the selfTHE POTENTIAL OF A POCKET TREASAURUS
She laid her measurements on the table at the Fates’ tailoring altar,
Clotho stopped spinning, Lachesis measuring, Atropos dropped the scissors.
No libation, no chant, no sacrifice did she offer or genuflect,