Him —
In between this breath and the next,
I will find a 1000 burning sons
In the rage of a solivagant man
Who forgets he is an ever-blooming bud, still growing.
Amidst peace and pain
He flirts with his fathers’ cadaver, patrizate and unaware there is still time for the opsimath.
Within every moment of denial
— bottled artefacts in some abandoned museum of age—
he takes inventory, by folding his own skin into wrinkles and …
2 Black neurodivergent queers meet at a bar
One extends a rainforest palm
The other clasps and shakes Sahara
In the middle, a summer storm takes place
Settles them down
Somewhere …
Let’s peel back the disparate and dehumanizing layers
of these different stories.
I can sit with the fact that they’re not monsters, these normal people
but the truth is stranger …
“If lovelessness is godlessness, will you cast me to the wayside?”
—Moses Sumney, “Doomed”
I don’t know
if lovelessness is godlessness
I feel like lovelessness…for me…
is too …
Cyclones are better than wildfires, than
smoke that blows hundreds of miles to
thicken the air. In the East Bay, high
levels of particulate matter from our
regular winter pollution …
(The black mold fungus Stachybotrys chartarum was originally discovered on the wall of a house in Prague in 1837. The average person inhales at least 40 conidia (fungus …
I woke to rain and wondered if that meant the sky was trying to be a prayer. Teary-eyed and drooping are the clouds inside my voice. No one ever taught water …
And maybe the feds did supply the hood with fireworks And maybe the fireworks will scare the gentrifiers away And maybe the gentrifiers will leave the hood And maybe I’m …
by Tom Healy The world folded and I let go. Cuffed, shoved and kicked down, my single-engine Cessna dropped through black-boot clouds and rain. Though I was mugged and tumbled, it’s actually difficult for a small …
I am in a eucalyptus grove next to a playground. I am seven, or eight, my school is Catholic, and recess begins and ends with a bell that stings. You …
