Lucy seemed to love being shocking.

I was small and fragile like the antique vases in her parent’s living room, the ones we could lookbutdon’ttouch.

"A Haunting" and "Shape Shift"

Mom and Drew ate tuna melt sandwiches on their porch while a light rain fell from the sky. She pointed to the sun emerging from the clouds and smiled.

We should talk about last night.

"Eve Learns to Dominate," "Farmers' Market," "Small-Town Fuck Geometry," and "Religious Art"

Two writers in conversation.

Ours was a world that devised its own sense.

"A List of Men I Have Dated" and "Dear Diary"

on a plastic chair...

He was at the sink washing dishes ... 

The tree frog plays his violin.

Praise be. 

I was reading today how trees, though not touching directly,
talk to each other...

Moaning
Moaning
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Label: Sub Pop Records
Length: 33 minutes

When you’re twenty-two you do stupid shit. You go to rock shows and parties. You drink a few Irish Car

I like to say I hate it when people say this,
but sometimes it really is what it is...

To be led by the engine of empire...

Promise to not assume that this is the one and only truth about my feelings for Liz. I had this recurring dream of me devouring her.

I can show you the double-rimmed chain-netted concrete court where I taught myself it was okay to aspire.

There was still nailpolish on her toes and fingers.

 I walk around the trailer park that has been dropped on top of a small hill like it’s just bird shit on a windshield. The boy with ‘Mama Tried’ tattooed underneath his eyes and ‘Country Fried’ inscribed above them got shot through the heart in the smallest trailer in Hogwaller. 

A two week notice.

The streets are empty. The bars are less full. 

From the long wooden balcony, from the house that overlooks a forest that is almost bluegreen in springtime and a witchy red during the fall, the snow slants through the trees like a new

geometry,

In 1644 John Weston, age thirteen or sixteen, depending on the source, stowed away.