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Takis brought down the demons that would pursue him the rest of his life.

This comb smells like tea gone cold, weighs less than a vein pumped full.

I want to bring the duality of us together, not spar with language.

The irreversible ink stain breaking the face of whatever we skate on.

They give me a pitying look, as if I am alone, and they are invincible.

I will have to remember the man’s hooded eyes as he watches.

I never prayed before. Since this happened I’ve been praying every night.

Virginia surprises herself: she wants this warmth, wants skin and breath.

It was a very strange dinner. I didn’t dare ask my parents questions.

I made him love me. To feel abandonment—again.

Instead of attunement, I was given a pair of size 6 Toughskins.

These men don’t ask me to remove my scarf, even though it’s mid-July.

My sister says, vicious as possible, “Don’t you dare try to protect me.”

He was afraid he would be sucked into the world like this cousin had.

The city is lit with all its lights. I’m up in the air. It is yes until I die.

I’m a slave to the question what kind of music would ever dare leave you.

All afternoon it rains on the traffic outside my window. It’s nothing new.

I’m told that even during war, she took the time to put on lipstick.

“I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re the same person,” she says.

He can’t remember the last time they made love. It has become a game.

Your voice on the phone, a gesundt in dein keppel you blessed my head.

My first girl, only sixteen year and she go, she run away to you.

You’re safe here. A prison might be the safest place to meet a man.

Remind the children never to use the state as a metric for ethics.

Desire whittled me a tool I’d never seen but knew how to use.

You decide that in this city all things are possible, even happiness.

I dream a sonnet made of buttons posed stiff against its milky plastic sky.

I stay gripped to pine and the sugar of existence runs through you.

There was something that eluded me, that was always outside the frame.

An expansion into light, or we could have been, or were for a moment.