How long does a shooting star last? How far does it travel? Your hospital gown half- unbuttoned, your face half- absent, your eyes crawl over me. I don’t know…

  People are less likely to help each other in loud cities, the ecologist said. To describe a silence, identify first what it’s not: the parade marching beyond the window,…

  On March 24, 2001, Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson accidentally killed a dove after the bird collided with a 100-mph pitch thrown by the 6’10” future Hall of Famer…

  If I had skin, I’m sure everyone here would be jealous of it. I’ve learned over the years that you can still hear a heart beating through the sound…

  canopy// I lay in the dark of my childhood bedroom, hungry for a woman—for linked arms, grins with all our teeth, and howling at a movie projector moon.  …

  It’s 3:10 in the morning and again, I am thinking About nothingness. I do not know how to stop. My mother said I am a man trapped inside a…

  At the town council meeting, they want to hold the sun accountable for night. Yes, let’s invent a better fence. Yes, let’s deem the teens gliomas on society. Who…

  I kept staring at the pond that led to our front door entrance. As the koi fish swam, I noticed that the one I named Ephemeral had finally disappeared.…

  Untitled (Black on Gray), 1970 In time, the sky devoured the hill, freeing three shades of darkness from the trees. I woke you, carried you to the window, so…

  You know tomorrow is the Woman at the Well, my mother says on the phone, meaning I know you’re not going and you haven’t been. You can’t just barge…

  I believe in ghosts and angels and god or a burst that made me from love. I believe in a city where no one is hungry with houses made…

now, imagine all the women healed— when you heal, part of the earth heals I wanted to drag my father’s family out into the street make them listen to their…