voice like crackling embers / legs that once worked / hair & fat face in old pictures on the staircase / how you are my brother there / years measured […]

Marty, an old woman, lived next door with manicured rose bushes & breasts like bags of rice & no visitors ever & one dead son. Once, she called the weed […]

In the station, I bought a coffee just to keep my hands warm & placed my head on your shoulder in a different way than I could before we’d slept […]

Cry on the wine-stained couch, cat claw & tooth torn. Your face salted as a state road after an ice storm. Skin like paper held to light. You stay so […]