Prayer for Transgender Summers
Oh Lord, July days are just like February now, / And the despair is endless -
JAKE
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.
The Universe Shrinks to the Size of a Pinhead Eight Minutes Before the Opening Bell in the Faculty Break Room
I have a daughter. I have two children older than you.
After We Watch The Girl, There are Birds and Bones Flying Everywhere When Supervising Middle Schoolers at Lunchtime
Pigeon is dead.