The art of loveThe wet finger of Our Lady of Rain taps across the seadown the karst-bright tower blocks, past the cars disappearing in fog.Our one-bedroom flat echoeswith Siouxsie and the Banshees and I leaf through Dad’s paperbackromances and the glossy Erotika:...
Infomercial for Soft Things (Alcibiades) Alcibiades—Athenian playboy, politician, and general who switched his allegiances between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War—embraced wantonness and excessive luxury. He had the planks of his ship taken out to...
i. When I say I am fat standing in your parlor,I stand tall in that parloras you close doors and shut blinds. You, blind, shut, closed, tell me fatness is not meant for lawns, porches, mountaintops, forget a fat lawn, a fat porch, a fat mountainfind your home in the...
At Moon Marble, the glassblower says glass has memory. He says, this is important to know: if you introduce air, or the temperature changes too quickly, and the marble cracks, you’re going to try to fix it. You’re going to think it was a successful repair. You lock...
I love museums. Perhaps because I’m nosy. I was the child who sat quietly with a book in her lap while the other kids went outside to play. I discovered that if I didn’t draw the attention of the grownups, I could mine their conversation for clues about the world. I...
I sat in the corner of Mariah’s roomAcross the cot,Covered in fresh dust,Flipped inside-out,Lint stuck to my mouth.The draft from the windowCooled the fabric of my skin,While muffled voicesEchoed through myFlimsy joints,Yearning to be heldIn her rough hands,Flying...
SubstratumI keep my fingernails short so that when I touch myselfI will never tear through my interiority. Each time I leavethe house I remind my husband to touch the childrenoften to fold them gently into him. Put his hands overtheir hands, notice the security of...
WildingMachetazo!, Bony Ramirez & Blonde Dreams, Alison Saaryou can take the girl out of the wildernessyou can strand her bewilder her for a timeyou can even hang her upside downin your rickety attempt to shake loosethe source of her power but you won’t...
Beach ReadingIssam ZinehEarlier when you told me green was a hard color to wear, I thought you said it makes the skin look fallowa. I could barely hear you over the specific musicwe came here for: esses and effs of oceansound.We will want, at some point, after having...