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The Part That Burns

Mafia didn’t like me, except for the tickling game. It went like this.

The Red Dress

“I hope the scumbag rots in jail,” he yelled into the quiet night.

The Reds

The moment in your drunk when you become rich! A connoisseur.

The Royal Reykjavík Sex Tour

We were in a play about affection. We were in a play about sex.

The Shaker

My friend Angela, who is also my roommate, got me into stripping.

The Spaniel

After nearly a year of dating, I never stopped thinking of that other boy.

The Spectators

Never issue a dare to a dead person. They’ve got all the time in the world.

The Speech of Miss Polly Baker

If mine, then, is a religious Offence, leave it to religious Punishments.

The Spooning and the Fork

This would not be a wooing meal. I was cooking my man into submission.

The Story of Sojourner Truth

Taller than most women, Sojourner Truth seemed to rise a little higher.

The Stylist

Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.

The Unwed Mother

Never mind the gossip of the world. Don’t have it, yet have it!

The Vaccination

The three of us share a myth, that I’m fragile as old bones. My parents speak in low voices—about me, I’m pretty sure. I watch the waitress, trying to remember how to flirt. I take off my mask.

The Widening

Spanish men. They whispered and whistled. It made her jumpy.

Thigh and Digression

Euclid stands in front of his lover’s door, open to the last hours of light.

Thirst

Our ambition was a clawing, grasping thing. It got us out of bed.

Three Poems

Men are so delicate, must be given many portals. I try to be game.

Three Poems

My brother stealing all the lightbulbs, my parents live without light.

Three Poems

If life was exchanged, who is to say it flowed one way?

Three Stories

I tell my sister what I didn’t tell my father, I love you. Please, don’t die.

Through the Wall

Everyone they pass is consumed by some desperate interior story.

To Reach Japan

Writing to you is like putting a note in a bottle, hoping it will reach Japan.

Toggling the Switch

When she gets to Lenny’s he offers her a beer and a bong hit...

Tookies

“I don’t care how tired we are. I’m not not having sex on my wedding night.”

Training at the Yizhuang Combat Sports Academy, 2008

How do you beat a man who refuses to rise from a puddle of his own blood.

Trigger Warnings

References to and portrayals of hypocrisy, moral sloth, venery.

Trojan

A boy in a dress vanishes beneath the sound of his own galloping.

Twenty-One People between My Legs (and Counting)

Who needs driftwood when I can bury myself in your loamy soil.

Two Appeals

My love swims you, your shoulders like hard sails under the green curls.

Two Poems