“the neweden – we
all carry

in our minds”

“–you are better than the vocabulary you choose to use for excusing yourself”

“Forgive me for our bending, for smelling the

hatred so close to your skin”

“here’s a trick made by time: I look in the mirror

& I’m a whole new girl”

“A tossed salad is not a metaphor
but a dish up on the floor.”

“lay with me in the red, the hot-salt noon.”

“as you are merely a visitor to poverty, or love”

“He came here as cargo”

“marmalade ringlets revolving like fire
lit swans in snow banks”