to pluck / each string and hear a
dissonant throat / opening into water
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Juana Attempts an Abecedarian
Nine nuns had the nerve to die in a bus crash in Costa Rica. No one knows their names.
Feature: Sally Wen Mao
If beauty signaled so much power, why did four out of four historical beauties die tragically?
Loved
The truth came to me through muddy hands and silly smiles.
In knotted laces, I learned patience.
Black History Month (As Told By My Spam Folder)
If a Black person is alive but no one /
is around to profit off of them, /
do they make a sound?
i’ll pray for you when you leave
you’re not even catholic, and i’m not even catholic,
and we’ve just played the biggest prank on the church since
the time that those kids teepeed the courtyard at st. joseph’s.
