JAKE

Albany Liquors

Outside the liquor store on Albany, after Maddie had her vodka, an older man in a gaudy tie and trench coat shouldered into her gently but on purpose.

self portrait as chinese typewriter

my father asked me for futures / i only have the word for solitude.

at the end of the earth, i find {}

// mother asks if i have a girlfriend // i respond with an assemblage of stones in my throat //

Texas Weather

You know why he does it, because it’s either a wall, a window, or someone’s face.

I am holding this for you: cento

using lines drawn from Richard Siken, Crush and The War of the Foxes

The Pendulum Swings for No One

Dad says time travelers can’t hurt us.

mother, your favorite tiki bar-

for Nat