Long ago, I built a self outside myself. / I ate what my family ate, answered / to my name, but when they said let us pray, / I kept my eyes open.
Impossible to build on uneven territory. Necessary to establish a foundation.
Most patients aren’t in as dire straits as the narrator of “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” no. But due to embarrassment or fear of being judged, lying to one’s doctor is prevalent.
Bethany M. Maile | Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis | University of Nebraska Press |...
for a winner / is every loser / outright butler / flat tire singing / the license plate frame / insisting
RA Washington | Baldwin Notes | Outlandish Press | 2019 | 135 Pages Purchase the book here. This book had...
Unfortunately silly snakes float through the car in the water as it pours in like it is
Yellow the car water like the gut keys for pianos compartmentalize in ball red blue and yellow
Sometimes, friend, you hold
the knife. And sometimes, under a silence of wings
and empty light, the knife just won’t be held.
It is impossible to leave and it is impossible to stay, because your life is here, because it will not have you, because you carry it, because it is fragile.
You were born from the light barricaded inside our nation’s fading grace // Someone always placing hands on you //
A plant nobody planted grows in the window across from mine on the fourth floor.