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Elsa Lanchester, the Bride of Frankenstein. hung above my bed next to a crucifix the former my chosen heartthrob as ten-year-old peers invested a growing interest in women via popular culture, crushing hard on Anne Margaret,...

The absolute messiness of indecision, the absolute messiness of dirt on the floor, the absolute messiness of how I got here. I carry the landscape, generations of hopes and desires, in this thin china cup that has lasted several...

I once saw the face of God. A vast and sudden slice of radio silence, among the noisy heavens. That evening I dreamed that I listened to one side of a conversation I never should have overheard. And so I do not watch the skies...

why am I staring at a computer screen in a pale blue room? he joked about my weight (sensitive subject) I joined a gym you smiled at me from the next bike I smiled too soon so in love we couldn’t eat I lost weight, forgot about...

You gaze into the mirror in the morning, skin blotchy and lined, curly hair turned to frizz dyed to its original blond. You won’t fool anyone. As you turn from the mirror, a doppelganger takes your place – a straighter spine,...

It’s not about creating distance. But my neighbor’s nostrils flare in defensive annoyance when I tell him our plan. On bright days his south-facing wall casts a white-hot glare through our living room windows. Instead of hanging...

poetry makes nothing happen –Auden You’re nothing. Travelers scramble by over bridges and culverts without a pause for your obscure babble. Only the road matters. It pushes you out of the way as if your rolling rhythms...