An Afternoon Wedding
The wedding planner skirts around him, out of the radius of his thrashing. She doesn’t have time to fight his hands away and explain that she’s not his bride.
JAKE
Accident, Maryland
Here old ladies brush their teeth with Desitin. Men step on the toes of priests. Strangers elbow strangers, their arms swinging back-and-forth like bells in a grandfather clock.
Peer Pressure
I’m molding a mask for myself out of aluminum foil.
Sad Girls of Instagram
after "Song for Sad Girls" by Kim Addonizio
Shedding
The gentleman in the chair stood up, paid, and breezed by Avery on his way out. They shook their hair off their face and made their first eye contact with the barber.
FTM Stigmata in the Truck Stop Men's Room
A visual poem
Ars Poetica
it is more warm than fireside / eyes shining orange and soft, /