come home
And how is this the same body that bent at the small of the back, en route to the moon—stopstopSTOP—lest you arrive too soon.
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Empress Indignant
Lena Drake
Before we did we spoke before we spoke we wrote before we wrote we thought
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Easy Find
Love is a big place an easy find a quick elevator ride
Jul 10, 20223 min read
To the Midsommar extra who crashed my wedding
Wedding planning is the end of all things good. But you do it anyway because… YOLO? You decide to have it overseas because you’re a...
Jun 13, 20221 min read
dried
Once you’ve finished drying yourself out, take stock of what truths you find yourself shouting to strangers in bathrooms hoping that...
May 17, 20221 min read
Coop
I left the kind of wedding that made you want to get married. Oaks, live witnesses to promises you were sure they'd keep. Car ride home...
Apr 21, 20221 min read
the boy with three houses
White, straight teeth, with lifts in his shoes. Money can't make you taller, but it can buy you french food. If he asks you on a date,...
Jan 22, 20221 min read
Divorce in the Summer
She romanticized being a divorcee: a former love-believer turned cynic, rebel of familial norms, brandishing her scarlet letter with...
Jan 7, 20221 min read
"I do"
She said I do not want to tell her to come back inside, her small heart already black and blue because he had better things to do. She...
Dec 22, 20211 min read
Brunch Rush
She didn't fit in with the rich. The way they curdled at strangers and rose to greet the shameless. She'd rather serve than sit, knowing...
Nov 9, 20211 min read
The Wild Girl
You’ll find her on Sunset Blvd heavy eyes, lips ajar. She picks a carnation, white, from the neighbor's lawn. Her face lifts and falls,...
Nov 6, 20211 min read
dive on Friday night
He prays like the hopeless, the way their fingers lace across a bottle or a waist—forgetful. His church sits somewhere close, close...
Oct 16, 20211 min read
the night to flee
Said he’s a martyr or maybe a snake Eyes emerald green mouth ready to take Told her be careful hunger makes a man cry Leapt into his arms...
Sep 22, 20212 min read
Lover Meets Monster
WAITRESS: Can I take your order?
He tells her he’d like to rip her apart limb by limb, eating up the pieces of her life one year at a time.
Aug 6, 20211 min read
An ESL Program in Toledo, OH
For Claudia and Eleni-- Toledo, Ohio is nothing more than flat. Outside the city sat a school for learning English. 17 and 18 year old...
Jun 23, 20211 min read
Look, before
I used to find you funny. You’re thinner now, like each year has eaten the pieces of your insides that used to make me laugh. I used to...
Apr 13, 20211 min read
Unreliable
Forever, you say,
is how we console children
you don't believe in consolation
but I am a child
Mar 11, 20211 min read
Souvenir
How often I've imagined your voice after coffee; the sound like scratching; the smell like desert. How often I've imagined your fingers...
Jan 15, 20211 min read
Enemy
The vastness of her legs and stomach
belong to a higher power.
She is not owner, but vassal of
her figure; supplying their demand.
Oct 27, 20201 min read
to remember your face at night
Reaching across the clammy world
to remember your face at night
the cities we've stepped on
frenzied with drink
and the sounds of love
Oct 24, 20201 min read
Color One
If everything was blue our ending would appear happier; we'd call a break a beginning If everything was red my anger would dull against...
Oct 2, 20201 min read
In Another World
In another world, you took the 9am flight and moved into an apartment on Bleecker Street, so you could tell everyone you lived in New York.
Sep 11, 20201 min read
Delusion has a maternal instinct
Dinner is ready and the weather is great and I love my job and the kids are just fine and we have a trip planned for summer and isn't that s
Aug 30, 20201 min read
the thick of you
I made this mess
in the thick of you;
the tangled, stuffy bits
with their shades
of distrust
their claws.
Aug 7, 20201 min read
Letter to LA
I arrived much obliged, having waited quite some time to reside in Tinseltown. But what I’d marveled at from afar—what I thought were...
Jul 15, 20201 min read
A matter of perspective
Do you remember me as I am?
I lean against your empty wall
or as you wanted me to be?
Jul 5, 20201 min read
Sun, constant
Nothing breathes here, not the way you're supposed to
where you give back what you take in.
Jun 28, 20203 min read
Empowerment In 5 Easy Steps
Men will no longer sexually objectify us--because that’s not cool anymore--so we must do it for them.
May 22, 20201 min read
Bad Lands
sweet boy, tired boy to the Bad Lands we go searching for eyes I can’t find anymore yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers with spines strong and...
May 7, 20202 min read
Phases of Procuring a Free Flight
Some expertise in the emotional manipulation of conglomerates for capital gain. In this case, how to change a flight: I'd like to start...
May 7, 20201 min read
Stay for breakfast, or drugs
The age of, "Are you staying for breakfast," wears off, as do the drugs.
Apr 6, 20202 min read
The Englishman
LA in the summer. Birthday party in mid-city. You wore a cardigan; wide mouth and cartoon smile. Accent gave you away, home somewhere...
Apr 5, 20203 min read
The Investment Banker
I went out with an investment banker and he couldn’t complete a sentence without yawning. But, I knew the 70-hour work week was worth it...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The One Beside The Seine
I lost my name in the kinks of his upper lip Humming Nutini for the sky As it peeled back tenors of pink and red I alone survived him...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The One In The Window
Thursday: Legs spill out of a window in Soho and we call to the ankles to let us up. Italian men and assorted models from the fancy parts...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The Dancer
He comes from the west. Sun spilling from his skin, collecting in small pools on my sheets--dirty with seasons of exchange. Our throats...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The Dismal Man
You’re dimmer than you were before they swallowed you whole. Before the sound of your heart aching was muffled by the black of somebody’s...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The Alcoholic
He prays like the hopeless, the way their fingers lace across a bottle or a waist—fingers forgetting to whom they belong. Bible study...
Apr 5, 20202 min read
The Actor
An actor’s process is a delicate journey. Acting takes perseverance, preparation, and commitment (to the craft, not your significant...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The Wild Boy
I find you on Sunset Blvd with heavy eyes, lips cradling a cigarette. You pick me a white carnation from my neighbor's lawn--you thought...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The Man In Motion
I used to look for your face, or a face that looked like yours, when the A would pass the C--as if it were a race, as if I was racing...
Apr 2, 20201 min read
The Friend
It’s raining in New York. Your back against concrete and my face in your sweater. You're holding me for “warmth.” Your fingers move down...
Apr 2, 20201 min read
My Friend's Boyfriend's Friend
Double date at The Spaniard. They pitched him for his jawline and that was enough to get me out of the house. Italian food in Midtown. He...
Apr 1, 20201 min read
Adult Frat Boy
College basketball on every screen in soho. You were less memorable than the game. Your face reminds me of my first beer, of the first...
Apr 1, 20201 min read
James #1
You spend more time critiquing my jeans than trying to get in them. I tell you the tattoo of fire on your arm is hot (pun intended). You...
Apr 1, 20201 min read
James #2
I don’t watch reality TV. I’m better than that. My ignorance leaves me standing on the corner of Santa Monica and Fairfax where a...
Apr 1, 20201 min read
James #3
You worked at the gym and trained at the gym and ate at the gym and I hate the gym. Six months in, I found myself having erotic dreams...
Apr 1, 20201 min read
James #4
You fucked like a republican. Photo By: Kelly Balch
Apr 1, 20201 min read
James #5
You took me to fancy dinners and watched me eat with my hands. I nodded along to your work-talk as though I knew/cared about what you...
Apr 1, 20201 min read
The Six Sticks
Wake up at 6am because “gains.” Put on Inside Lacrosse. Take a deep breath, inhale motivation, exhale negativity. Visualize winning....
Apr 1, 20201 min read
The Greek
Ταξίδευα στο πίσω μέρος του ποδηλάτου σας μέσα από τα βουνά της Ελλάδας. Με πήγες στην πατρίδα που ανήκε στον παππού σου. Μου είπες ότι...
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