Reading My Living Room Floor Like Tea Leaves
I’ll have to get down on my hands and knees to pick up / the multitudinous pieces...
JAKE
Little Nothings Inside
The gate was a custom job. Two pieces, meeting at the middle, with the guys’ wife’s initials in scrollwork on either side. It took my brother weeks to make them.
Prayer for Transgender Summers
Oh Lord, July days are just like February now, / And the despair is endless -
Annihilation (2018)
I am the Shimmer /
Crawling everywhere at once,
Wild and Unclean
You inhale the shoe’s sweaty-sour scent. It’s disgusting. Dirty. Dingy. Dusty.
坚持到底 Till The Very End
“They take, as men are wont to do, with zeal”—A. Van Jordan
The Violet Ladder to Heaven
I read the whole Bible after she dumped me: Old and New Testament. Why the Bible? It’s probably not most people’s first choice of break-up read. But she’d been going on a lot about God and angels lately, so it felt kind of like scrolling through her new boyfriend’s Instagram.