Category Archives: Poems

Swallowed a cherry pit,felt happily alone,when I giggled at the back of classabout what wombs can grow.
The professor rambled onabout the history of dissent,why we need criticism,and what I should have readby nowmaybe he forgot how it feels to go out on your ownthe magic of the world and wordsmixed up and unknown.
Maybe it’s as [...]

On the subway hometwo boys run into a girlthey once knew, on the train. One says“Ask her if she broke up with Kevin!”(And they do). She says she has and they ask whyand she shrugs a sighand boy one asksif it was another girland boy two, if her sisterhad to do with itand she looks [...]

Clear spaces and blue skiesain’t no place for a city girl’s mindso tonight I’m just a dot on the skylineflying back to where we might lieand feel closely less alone again.
There’s little to trust in going slowI need reminders—go, go, gododge this, fix that, me first, you lastunanswered open ended questions too vastwithout alleys and [...]

I bought you a bookto keep postcards from me,a cheap trick to keep youcataloguing our continuance,but the chickens have come home,and my writing ungluedby unused postage(a penny jar unemptiedweighing down pursed lips).
You write,“Whenever I come hereI long for you.Somehow the brick buildingsyour hair,the white window framesthe contours of your faceand that seeping glare,sunlight through [...]

Your mother drops youon 11th and 1st to meet me(as if I can help).
The backseat bounces with bare potentialyour brothers: two and four, carseated and unsurewhat more days of limited waysmight mean.
Later, walking you home,you say you will go ahead alone(some quietness about making your waythrough the maze)and I am left to turnon wearing heels [...]