Words are one way in which we can create bridges toward each other and create these alphabetical band-aids to make us feel as though, okay I can get through this hour, I can get through this day…Language is going to save us, in every way.”
when they publish a list of all the ways they want to undo you
even when all the doors seem locked, there is [somehow] always a rainbow to lead the way…
somewhere on the east coast
Dear New York, we met during my lonely period. We’ve done some horrible things to each other and yet I keep coming back. What am I expecting from you?
seussian smile
when you bank on a body, confused with mine, all patchworked and removed—
you expect, you want, it is your privilege to see it stretch for you.
how to blow up a life
I am contemplating taking every door off its hinges, even the ones which do not belong to me.
Whitney, but also you.
You have time.
You are not bored yet, even when you think you are.
I’ve got more maps in me than your fingers have touched, so what I mean to say is:
keep wandering.
Pixie Dust
Powerful alternating currents of nouveau-dada mayhem and soul-bearing introspective confessional lyricism that accomplish an uneasy balance and offer up a richly performative tapestry.
David Lawton, Aimee Herman and Eric Alter deliver the goods with raw underground stage energy and chaotic power.
Canvas Rebel interview
I am learning that how I am perceived–or misperceived–has become the fuel to my writing.
Thank you to South Broadway Press
I’m sorry for my mess, I said, an apology with a footnote, of which the dissertation is still being written.
how to love an onion
I knew it was over by the way she started to kiss me. She used to treat my mouth like a rest stop. She’d park her tongue between my lips for hours. Seizure it around, clean my teeth, zigzag from cheek to cheek, waterslide down my throat. Her kisses were like a season pass to Great Adventure.
procedure in three parts
On the day my breasts were removed, the sun hitchhiked up the sky.
this is how to remove yourself from a body
When you feel unsafe, build a metaphor out of your body and watch it become something else. A cash register. A rent payment. An elevator. A garbage bag. A potato chip. A chalk outline on the sidewalk people walk over and the rain removes. A tumbleweed of hair. A cigar box full of scabs and fingernail clippings. A broken seatbelt. A discarded subway map.
Three Generations
Why do you have so many scars, asks the third generation to the second.
Because I have lived, the second replies. But what they do not add is that each scar is from a different war within the body and mind. Some truths are not able to be told until. Until. When?
Healing through language
“Language always has an important role in day-to-day life, whether we’re going through a pandemic like this or we’re not. Words are one way in which we can create bridges toward each other and create these alphabetical band-aids to make us feel as though, okay I can get through this hour, I can get through this day…Language is going to save us, in every way.”
Name Calling
I am trying to articulate and wrap my understanding around the words I want to ask others not to use on me. What if we could carry a tiny index card in our pockets and on this card were the words that make us feel invisible, incorrectly seen, or just simply cause us to cringe. And by just carrying these words in our pocket, that ink becomes so powerful that it creates a…force field…an electromagnetic barrier making it impossible for these words to be spoken in our presence.
Dear 2019 and the years before that
I learned that the color of a bruise is synonymous to the sky right before a storm. And just like the sky, the body can thunder and lightening itself until it is unrecognizable.