Posts by Cash Compson

August 4, 2026 | Poetry

Long Weekend and it’s Hot Summer—Hang Out With Me, Sleepy

Cash Compson

I tried to see another way / and you shimmered / glitch-like / like a god. 

April 17, 2026 | Poetry

Six Poems

Cash Compson

She lives in Brooklyn, so I go to Brooklyn.

January 3, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Cash Compson

coyotes marauding in
waves of slaughter & i’m
jealous of the way

July 19, 2024 | Poetry

3 Poems

Cash Compson

october bumble date

less human. less here.
my mother lost my face and now i’m
everywhere. smeared in public. pulp
in private. self-immolation summer on demand.
i’ll love you all again
at the

September 24, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Molly and I Always Went To the Fancy Taco Bell in East Waterbury Instead of the Shitty One Downtown

Cash Compson

The summer she was without anyone

and I had just left the other girl

in Jersey City,

Molly and I kissed at her house. We were adults

who lived with our parents. She seemed like

August 17, 2023 | Poetry

4 Poems

Cash Compson

shadows cast like heaven’s
hands down over her eyes.

March 7, 2023 | Fiction

Emily

Cash Compson

Emily was mine first.

January 31, 2023 | Fiction

Natalie, My Chaperone

Cash Compson

I lie in bed a long time before sleep comes. I wonder if I love Natalie or if I’m just so bored and I’m turning fleeting, tiny moments into full scale cinematic affairs in my head.

October 5, 2022 | Poetry

3 poems

Cash Compson

Mouth like the

moon. Until death,

be excited. Déjà vu

you’ve never had.