i got you to sign a copy of your book for me. you were too close to my mouth for me to breathe. you asked me my name and i didn’t give you ...
(march 13th pt. two)
bilingual men who live inside their words |
musings |
readings |
women who mimic the effects of sexism in their bodies
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a new mfa student comes up to the podium to introduce you, our second poet. she is mousy and flustered. she speaks too softly, looks down t...
(march 13th)
i’m pretty sure this is the same seat i sat in at the last reading. i am surrounded by friends and sitting directly in front the man i’ve b...
(after reading tender buttons//an attempt to mirror gertrude stein)
a page sucks you in sucks you in sucks you up sucks you as black ...
(feb 22 2014)
saturday at the conservatory there are no poppies here and yet i feel as if the orchids are all lulling me to sleep. i could stay here f...
(feb 21 2014) "don't stray away from your obsessions"
i am sitting at the table with one of my friends, surrounded by eleven white canvasses. the other black girl speaks first. (i am too afra...
(feb 20 2014)
you opened the reading and i could lay myself in your voice. the bible belt fits snug across your vowels, doesn't clench around your...
(when you feel like you've lost everything)
i've always been great at pushing people away. isolation is my forte; it's familiar, comfortable, and safe. but no one knows that be...
(nov 26 2013)
i am watching a film about beatnik boys. one of them is so attractive i can't stand it. we have matching thick rimmed black glasses bu...
(frequent flyers)
flights |
latina army women with irresistible grins |
latino boys with pteromerhanophobia |
personal essay |
portland |
spring break |
white moms who eat yoplait light
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the lady sitting next to me ordered a salad that looked as if it were growing mold. she was skinny and blonde, the type of ideal woman in ...
(for quiet girls who don't know how to change)
don't. you've spent your whole life like this and you don't know anything else. girls like you become forgotten. you've co...
(quarter life crisis)
i'm not quite sure what i'm doing here but i guess that is the human condition. my life as a pre-twentysomething is basic...
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