The Farmers’ Market
While the farmers’ market was in full swing, thereby the fountain, a baby girl was learning to walk. Herwarm cinnamon face radiated light not yet dimmedfrom understanding the cruelties of this world, the oddsstacked against her for reasons beyond her control. She was...
Containment
A therapist works inside a container. The four office walls form the structure within which we listen, of which we ask. Wehave been trained, licensed, hired, but we are just as flawed. Just as human.Each hour starts very much the same, but the air still contains...
Vanishing
Hot and sweaty, Cousin Kieran clings to my body, as we mash together. He can barely hold on to me as I have no fat. “No love handles,” as he puts it. He never gave me a second glance all those years at family holiday parties, but now, I’m so slim that my breasts...
Audacious Ambition
so hot until it’s notso long as I smileNot that smile. less teeth, pleaseless vagina dentata, pleaseless evidence that I could devourwhat devours me How very unbecoming of meto be becoming. if you could just…hold the line between HR andhell between performance...
Unboxing
In an unboxing video, a product is meticulously liberated from its packaging for the purpose ofentertaining overly-stimulated children so that under-rested mothers can take a five minuteshower in peace. My kids use hashtags. They speak in emojis, slang, and...