
peach springs.
I wondered if the family dog would still recognize my scent. It felt like eternity, how long I’d been gone.

i saw you in your tuxedo, you looked like a movie star
Do you remember the salt air of that February? How
every pine folded inward with rot and
the robins sang of the spring to come?

inter-dimensional love story
You like mysteries that much?
the old movie asks through
the beautiful blond and
Yeah. You’re a mystery. I like you very much.

(dishwater) blond + wifely
Over the kitchen sink, silhouetted
buzzing in dim, yellow light
The soft curve of your elbows and the red spots along
the back of your thighs

haunted house
perfume (yours) lingers in my room
though you haven’t entered it since october last

this is me lying to you
the summer ended in caffeine dregs at the bottom of my cup i don’t think i like my hometown any longer but when i think too hard about it


non-fiction fiction reality!
isn’t it funny? it seems like the whole world exists in limbo with love indefinitely, letter from early summer sits in my drawer like i even knew what that meant

breakfast in limbo
there's so much i'm not supposed to tell you
i've gathered angels, i've begun consorting with greater beings

north carolina funeral
gold red green autumn tipped leaves and
spots of mold along my heart

Cigarette Break on Prom Night
Yellow lamplight flickers
The drone of cicadas, the press of April heat

noon on sunday
bugs swarm a black cloud around the cake
but i’ve only just made it this morning.

SUMMER, SOFT MIDNIGHT
summer unwinds, all golden arms and these purple flowers will soon lie dead on the earth’s floor. there is a great red cyst forming on my hand





Cruel World
sea-spray and several tightly woven salt-laden oceans / the wicked sun rising in my dusk setting in your dawn

white fang eats the sun
displeased with my tenderness and upset with the mess from my heart that lies quivering on the plate in a pool of yellow ooze

russian mother
Once my family was quite nice, almost important. My mother came from a bloodline of slender-necked ballerinas, the first American born to her Russian family.