there is a tiny girl dark skin glowing in her pink dress parents circle her courtiers to this drunk emperor…

My left knee holds a white coffin Small and new And the memory of the other baby who lived But…

I talk to you As if my tongue skids on ice The words slip out Unruly children No translator by…

I write to weed. My wordwept mind breathes less heavy. No romantic Muse visitation. It is functional. A bloodletting. Lumps…

I feel the world as though caught in a storm upon a cliff And everyone else seems bone dry. But…

Scared and sore Bombast battered Distraction-drugged Confidence creeps up A timid child at a window And vanishes at the smallest…

my hands tinkle through the water I float I hear my lungs as though through speakers the inside of my…

Don’t leave breadcrumbs You won’t come back Scorch the path Sweep up the splinters Of your shattered self Let them…

it has come as a low thud the rage in me a great beast with slow tread boiling across the…

Stepped into his wife’s shoes The day she died. Learnt to make soda bread. Took the smallest one, my father,…