Morality is a word I am curious about. I'm not interested in imposing any kind of way of being on other people, but I am interested in the dignity of all human life.
FICTION
From the Archives: Preludes
“According to the local bloggers, the latest census identified 98118, the Rainier Valley in South Seattle, as the most diverse zip code in the US.”
POETRY
My Once and Future Body
Would tell you how I, fourteen, dreamt of these exact hands / In the latent underside of a wave.
MICRO
ruminations
always, there is so much / i do not want.
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Neither of us
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