Archive for April 2017

We Haven't Spoken In Almost a Year

We Haven't Spoken In Almost a Year

In life — There are people you have something in common with, Because you work with them or your kids are the same age, Or you live next do…

Inauguration Day: January 21st, 2009

Inauguration Day: January 21st, 2009

One day you will see yourself as you saw yourself then, Back when your addiction felt like the cure, One-hundred and fifteen poun…

Lonely Spinster Cat Lady Mourns

Lonely Spinster Cat Lady Mourns

I. Insomniac Blues This poem means sleeplessness. You went. Where? II. Not Even a Hint We watched shows about the d…

Eating on a Budget

Eating on a Budget

My Friday Denny’s dinner. Scrambled eggs, scribbled frogs spread in butter, Wax colored. Green and blue. Boyfriend wars with the…

High School is Forever

High School is Forever

I’m thirty-five and sleeping with the student body president. He went to law school and took tests while I dropped acid and danced …

Mercedes

Mercedes

Mercedes, that day working the cafe when you stepped on the floor with your apron flung over your arms and Paul was talking nonsense…

Melting

Melting

Tea cups best like this, Five or six and snowing. Mornings hold, afternoons sneak the sun past the nurses. By the time dark gor…

I Miss My Daughter As a Child

I Miss My Daughter As a Child

To those of you with small children: Cherish the playground days. Even the playgrounds with the swings where you have to push and …

Things I Lost In the Burglary

Things I Lost In the Burglary

I . My suitcase for going home A curling iron, a hair dryer A tool kit assortment of mismatched tools Left by men wh…

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