“Paint your own pictures. Masterpieces. Hang them. Invite him over to see. Watch his jaw hang. So you’re good, he says. Threatens to steal. Your creations. Your life.”
Read More“When I’d pictured you (yes, I pictured you / and me with you), it was dead-on: / you wear the expected eyes of exhaustion,”
Read Morethe needle skips, you pour more salt. i’m not fucking listening, / i promise. throw scripture into static—rip
Read Moreto be filled up / and begging for more / (when the womb is dying) / all expectant and graped / and waiting.
Read More“but of course / that’s all we do on the / aihland / drink lukewarm rum out of coconuts / that I suction onto my breasts / to let you rip off / & drink / the liquor sweating, glowing”
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