Poetry

Crutches

After Nikki Giovanni - “Emotional falls always are/the worst/and there are no crutches/to swing back on”

Explaining the Rules to My Children

In Louisiana it’s illegal to send unsolicited pizzas

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...

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,

坚持到底 Till The Very End

“They take, as men are wont to do, with zeal”—A. Van Jordan

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.