If you are to fall in love Then where should you stand to begin with? And when the falling’s done How bad should you plan to get injured? And if you land on your feet Do it count as a fall or a jump? And do it feel like a fall When the hands that [...]

Their life, collapsed like unplayed cards, is carried piecemeal through the snow; Headboard and footboard now, the bed where she has lain desiring him where overhead his sleep will build its canopy to smother her once more; their table, by four elbows worn evening after evening while the wax runs down; mirrors grey with reflecting [...]

In the bodega, a young girl wearing jeans so tight she has to use turpentine to get them off, says to her friends, Damn, it’s dead ass raining out! I was enamored.  Instead of cats and dogs, I pictured donkey corpses falling from the sky, clogging the gutters. That’s some “serious” rain. The song on [...]

He speaks saxophone And I want to be his favorite Nina Simone song. Maybe “Feeling Good” or “Wild is the Wind”, Want him to breathe me. Let me be a memory, He will tell grandchildren about, As he becomes the wrinkles at the corners of my eyes, Proof of smiles and sunlight I want to [...]

I thought maybe I should tell my parents. then recalled all the pain my once stable, now outed friends carry (with their crutches); ruined by homophobic parenthood. youth who face adults with hellfire speech and condemnations that turn air to glass, who tumble apart like a fist full of confetti, a freshly shattered mirror, a [...]