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17.11.14

Excerpt: Bright Lights, Big Department Store

I am holding myself
through way of layers
immaculate square footage
as to expose this as
the money they’re making
sleeveless design I feel
good about
unless
the places they agitate

practice of apparel

I ready
the delight
fold by fold
where solid answer is given
in the dressing room
both parties
unminded exposure
& shared disappointment of
an ill fitting top

what interaction
defines the weeks leading
how we
cannot keep a thing
to oneself


an empty Synergy bottle
incessant bleating

11.9.14

At Ocean Nails

I sink into polymer powder
my escape package

one girl to show another
her calf massaged
did she know
what a smell they’ve made
a sealant for my 
expressed relaxation

I’ve refused
a 10 minute pressure
in the back of my neck
not doing what I want to do
today I am 

here at Ocean Nails
as something deserved
thinking
my life could be worse

like your lyme disease
the negative tests 
a page refreshed obsessively 
we slept easy
tanning with all our clothes on
weekday vacation

like if there was a way
for us 
to be this sunroof

furling back into itself
every yard, hydrangeas 

there is a better word for it
a feeling once felt 
watching lightening from the sand

I expected it

he picks me up 
the rain comes
I cry in the car
about hating my job
we can’t see out the windshield
an avoided fender-bender


new nails dry under UV bulbs

a shelf holds an offering of fruit

it’s bananas 

25.2.14

Excerpt from Just Us Girls

she continues getting replaced
or replacing me 
it is the same, a stunning fit  




A-line, wide belt she divided
me from myself

what dangerous likeness 
this necessary lining
that I am after 

11.1.14

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Thanks Fran, thanks Gabe, thanks whoever took this photo.