self preservation toolbox inventory #1
recognizing the feeling, the hollow heartbeat discomfort in my body that tells me I'm dealing with an untenable privilege dynamic in a relationship cuz it feels like everything i say is...
View Articlean end to able bodied rhetoric.
I wanted to chime in on the chorus of brilliant replies and comments from folks on B. leowes circulating article "an end to self care". I'll link some of my faves below. they cover many things i wish i...
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My new chapbook take 2...!
after some technical -how to pay for it- issues that i believe i've fixed, i'm posting this again!My newest, most lovely, humble and razor sharp chapbook is available for 5 bucks! There are 38 pages...
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a hard rakedrags thru the debristurning up broken glasshistoryrusty nailsbottle caps packedwith griefleavesstones too heavyto movechurns up reason leavessalt and sandbeetle shellsand hope tillsover to...
View Articlegintaras
the day the moon swallowed the sunand the clocks went backthe lightwas amber when I wokethere was mist and rainbowI wonder if I’ve paid enough attention to the deadare their stories in mehad I listened...
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dream and their feet paddle and their lips twitch and snarlthey are fighting chasing hunting playingI dream about pretty young men wanting mewake heart racingchasing youthI dream about my animalswake...
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i like to paint trees! this is watercolor. image: a watercolor painting of a leafless tree, mostly a view of the trunk, offcenter, with a few long slender branches spreading out parallel to the ground....
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the balm
is in the foggy river valley the budding cottonwoods teeming with bird songthe train rolling through
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years of desire
in the dark of your mouth where the words comeup to tell meHold very stillShow mehow good you can be
View Articlegrief is a beast
a hard lover smokethat leaves debris lodged unseen and dangerousinsidea deep calm bodyof grey watergrief is bodies becomingbattlegroundghostsbecoming only heartsonly blue suffocated bloodcirculating...
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watercolor.image: text reads "immigrants and refugees welcome here" on a light orange background with a large pink wild rose in the center and smaller dark green leaves of a rose bush with buds and...
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I am not Orlando
I’m a lot of things survivorone bad turna luck from hungryI’m sick and low class and as queer as it comes shocked and I’m grieving but I am not Orlandocolonization did not destroy my homeland demonize...
View Articlefemme full moon
I’m with the witches and the whoresthe seeded queensthe beauty makersthe rusty dragonsdownersand loose changeI’m with riskand a bad turnI eat the richlike a spell castingpre- internet harlotI’m in it...
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ode to a pulse beneath
when she laughed I knew home calling in falling leaves heavy skies wide hipped denim clad womenshe laughed rough stars and all the snark that reclaims our joyshe laughed good dirtand the secrets to...
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