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After Siaara Freeman Age: Old as water. The ocean’s in my cells, you know. The rain too. The water in those half-empty bottles in your room. Ancient. Last week. This morning. IDK, it’s all the same. Sex: A bass riff. All the time. Syrup. First light. January sun. Sheets on the floor, french toast in […]

One: No matter how one looks at it, the gaze of one’s mother should never be as full of contempt as mine was. Misprision was one of her talents. The frills of girlhood seem to make her fester. Which leads to the childhood one would rather forget. Otherwise, two: Comparison may steal one’s joy, but

A Kind of Pink At the corner store DAY      I throw myself at lemons      and oranges, and the bright flags of awnings.      A moth ricochets off my eyebrow. A hyphen between a premonition and a wish divided into confessions NIGHT      Under harp and thunder      a single gunshot cracks the black

Pink sunlight was scattered on Charlie’s dark wooden floor. It made him smile as he stepped into the room, and he sat down near the window. Outside the window was a church, really quite close to his house. It was a dirty looking white church, not too tall, with a humble looking steeple. It had

People who die in Floralill are first transported to the holy city of Thales. It is here that the body is bathed as if they were part of the ruling families, even if they were poor. This is achieved through using fresh water taken from the blessed river that flowed directly from the King’s Mountain

The deer stood obscured by the woods at the edge of the highway, its great height made even more impressive by the sharp branches of antlers glinting under the moon. Next to the deer stood a chicken, shivering with roughed-up feathers, full of rain, with the stain of what looked like a drop of blood

When Greg ran electrical wire through the walls he never imagined the despondency a place could come to know. A paltry collection plate. Purple stains blearing the cement floors. The worshippers–a meager constituency– casting the ballots of their prayers. How the halls once rang with the hard freight of their voices. A trip to Africa,

A Pair “Might be hard to fit those things on your feet when you’re dead. You better just wear them all the time so they don’t have to put them back on you when your feet swell up.”                         [laughter] “Katie will just grease up my feet and slide them on.” “Hey Katie, he wants

With A Garland Forlorn rest within something          so sweet and so clear          take what is tender and healing          bind it with a garland forlorn          a pity          that you used to long for the ones who came before you to have          before you longed for them not to be there at all          what has come now

The night the power went out, no one in the neighborhood noticed at first except Ji-ho, because he’d been watching a livestream of a man tattooing his own forehead in real time. When the screen blinked off, he just sat there for a second, blinking too, the dark folding in around him like it had