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Justice & Equalityexpand_moreThe shapes called them bastard loads. The lazy creations of fools.
I try to get her to drink again. We were okay drunks, before Jesus.
Poor boy, he only wanted to love some man—who knows who?
He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.
Don’t hitchhike the Mediterranean coast of Algeria in the summer of ’71.
Soledad is the name a woman is given, a sentence a woman must serve.
You might say I acted on instinct. All I wanted was to stop the screaming.
You go out larking with a neatly mustached man.
For eight weeks no one heard my voice for eight weeks no one slept.
When I cast my vote, I become just that tiny, abstract, lost, and essential.
A plastic Kroger’s bag caught in the chinking—Spelter’s only banner.
He grabbed me, groped for my hips, kissing me, smelling my hair.
I couldn’t make sense of the ruined house, the love stained to its creases. Sometimes life is a sequence of departures, sometimes a destruction.
I see a young ZZ Top smiling, eyes darting from my shirt to my beard.
Turned out Bauer was one of the ones brought alive by misery.
People talk this way who would prefer the earth parceled out in standard lots.
She had seen him take the crop to a girl for doing nothing at all.
Jo had tossed every last wedding photo, wanted no recollection.
A man jostles my stride to the street, no shoulder on which to move.
They need to be named, loved, then unnamed to be seen once more.
I grip the handlebar and pin my eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable crash.
I want to dispute that depression is by definition pathological.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Anytime I drifted off I wished to wake up against a cold, silent body.
Struggling to find my budget hotel, my stress rose as the sun faded.
They tried to kill us, my sisters, mother, and me; I still have the scars.
Black wings thrash in trees, then strafe me low, my head their devil.
Our remarks must be tempered by a sense of cooperation.
You and me is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better.
