Writing
2026
banana bread
yellow-black caterpillar is overripe banana. its little legs must feel like it has walked lifetimes through…
Wax
Light a candle and curse the darkness as I drip away like scented wax. Counter-clockwise, you…
Philadelphia Duo
[music] [singing] Round sunglasses.
These Hands
These hands, these dry, wrinkly hands, desert–born, salty,
Lilith in the Garden
They say the Garden was perfect, but she knew better. Before the naming, she walked the…
Apocalypse of Relief
No alarms sound, no great shattering, just a slow unthreading
Little Wing
There's a little known thrift & antiques store in my current town of residents,
The Old Cat at the Bottom of the Steps
Thirteen steep steps— once bounded up in curiosity,
This One’s for the Birds
The birds sing their familiar tunes
Uproar in Diritania
From early that morning, the people of Diritania, a small country, had been waiting anxiously for…
A UNIVERSE FOR TWO
ELENA (40s) — A translator and writer. She has spent years living in the margins of…
Haunted Heart
The dust of us has settled the bitter sting, just a pit of emptiness now.
What The Sky Could Not Keep
There was a season when everything I loved left in flashes—
Synchronization
Patrick Swayze dances a chassé across the screen. (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life sounds…
The Golden Hour
Millie smelled the lake before she saw it through the trees. Something damp and almost peaty…