The Privilege of being a woman in America, as seen through the eyes of the women of Tanzania
As a 21-year-old woman raised in America, I often felt vindicated. Once I entered the progressive world of college, I preached the idea that life was unfair for women, especially when compared to our counterparts – both the bane and the desire of my existence – men. I was unhappy Read more
Ghost Knight
We haven’t spoken for years, yet my wounds are fresh. Your sword’s point, it’s center ridge, the length of its groove, as if a ghost knight buried his blade in my chest. It’s no secret, I once loved you more than the rest, despite your duplicity, your sarcasm disguised as Read more
sabbatical 2022
the glamor and glaze; the love of the dream and all its on-looking haze it’s still there. but the plays; the twisted and funky things their spirits need(ed) to do and say on behalf of those, watching—themselves acting out on that stage: am I drawing this curtain to fade? perhaps Read more
Fat Tuesday
Layla tells us that she was down to 500 calories a day when she saw God. We’re all at Bri’s house, the four of us knee to knee and shivering because her mom turns off the heat at nine. The basement TV is paused in the middle of an episode Read more
Desideratum – n. something which is needed or wanted
On a Joplin trip Winding a string around my finger Oh yeah; sweetest hues and blue of Addiction, of love of words, pastel baby What’s the point, little girl-pink tastes Like anger to me — I need nothing But satin feelings — I understand nothing — the Presence of my Read more
A Demi-God
If there was a joke attached to every lie you spoke or wrote I would laugh and laugh and never settle for your self adulation in your separation of the shallow wall in your heart that never lets anyone in but its the failed chagrin in the dailies of your Read more
intelligence
you think time stops because you figure something out like how your ex bf sings for tiny women & since you’re tall his love for you was never true Read more
