Agar Man

The letters of my psyche are out of order. Call the coroner- my alphabets have paid their debts for all the horrors they’ve inflicted. Some went to the chair, canvas hood pulled over… Read More

Night Shift

Woke up at 8 a.m. this morning, suddenly bored of nightmares. It’s been a long time since I started sleeping through the day, every bone of my being defied by my eyes, too… Read More

Zipper [Re-Post]

Look at us, nineteen years old, regurgitating cliches, disowning your daddy’s little girl demeanor. You’ve made a believer of my receivership, obscenity into beautiful phrases escaping your lips. I’ll tell you anything to… Read More

Knuckle Draggers

Ain’t nothing but knuckle draggers, they said, expecting their words to stab us like daggers but all that sword play’s gone to their heads. You thought power made you powerful but power over… Read More

Comeuppance

The watch towers fall- one less eye in the sky is one more blind spot when natural disasters are assigned- we’ve lost the appetite for drones flying over our homes being killed off… Read More

Katabatic Carousel

I’ve felt the visceral pull, like a magnet outside my front door; it makes me a gunshot of me. I barrel toward its prongs, but its exterior can easily can withstand my velocity.… Read More

Twin Remorse

Mother taught me how to read a book but never a stranger’s face. She compared me to the greats along her bookshelf, corrected me when I misspelled their names but did not provide… Read More

F*ck It

I’m not one of the originals nor a pioneer. I did not unearth a kingdom or liberate frontiers. I will not leave some legacy to be revered. I’m just a narcissist allowed a… Read More

Sunshine

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, and though I can’t guarantee the tides will abide or promise summers aren’t finite, there will always be a place for you in my sky. Corners… Read More

Letters to My Widow

After hours, sometime near the 2 a.m. mark the downers I swallowed to extinguish my spark fight sleep’s embers- (if you remember nothing else, remember you were the only part of me left… Read More