It’s always the most blue
water that is lacking
bacteria needed for true purity.
Category: Systemic Dysfunction
Question
You slice me wholly through,
to my core.
I plunge the incision back at you,
and the foot-long dagger disappears
Josie
Josie didn’t know me,
but I think that she was lonely
in her ignorance.
Man-eater
Attention, attraction,
affection, attachment,
with trust in you too large to trust
myself so little,
Shrapnel
When you say you did a thing,
and you’re scared you did the wrong thing,
or did the right one wrong,
Safe
I regress through feelings of my girlhood, like a
woman healing. My shame hadn’t felt dirty
in so long, but my new dance moves mimic
clawing at my face, and I’m finally saving for the
teddy bear the house fire took away. Old raging
Dance (Trans Day of Remembrance 2022)
I’m not sure if I want to understand hatred—
murders on the eve of a day for remembering the dead.
Gas Lit
To the canary trapped inside a cave,
the puzzle is the cage-
#ally #enlightened
The stranger said, “My name is Ken.
What can I ask the god of the universe for, for you?”
I said, “I need my husband to land a job
that pays some bills while preserving his health.”
Ken said, “You don’t understand your plight
as a woman in our sexist world-
Flagrant
Topless with the windows open.
Alphabet Ravine 