She Fools Me Every Time

When I discover my shoeunder her pillow and my credit cardsfloating in the tub, I kiss herfor finding them. Vile animal, she calls mefor taking her clothesand washing them. I confess. She changes my name: Peter toJoe to Elizabeth. Yes, I answer. We agree the neurologist stoleher driver’s license when she wasn’t lookingand that 2 a.m. is a yummy time to split a tuna fish and…

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The Last Thing I Will See Before I Die

Saturday is small and full of bright hot life and love buns. I can’t taste the chocolate notes in coffee three, but Jesus turns the wet brown grounds toliquid light and I growthick roots, twisting down deep into the busy ground. This season is one ofyellow weather and mounds of sounds we only taste when we are finished making little sighs of soft delight beneath…

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The People Can Have a Little Trauma Bond, as a Treat

I’m people. One day, I’ll be a meme or put a QR code to my Cashapp on communion wafers. You scan, pay, then let it dissolve— through you, with you, in you, etc. Cut your teeth at a 45 degree angle this valerian root smells like feet we smell like feet we’re healing, pulling coconut oil from our toes, swishing it in our mouths bleeding…

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