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As soon as I heard his voice, I felt as if a wind had swept through my head.

I only divine the cat’s location when I hear its small cough.

Let the squeamish suffer their fear, let them live without really living.

We agreed: no hearts, no flowers, just courteous, no-strings sex.

She’s a blushing peach waiting to be plucked by practiced hands.

It had always been this way. Mothering, for my mother, was a cameo role.

The solution, she’s discovered, is always to err on the side of caution.

My brush dissects her slick-back black hair to expose ugly white.

She looked at him with sorrow, and surprise, despite all the news.

I could untie Minnie’s silk, restitch it into places I’ve lived.

A rider prances toward the ash, a sailor looks for meaning in unrequited hearts.

What if Eve was an Indian & Adam was never kneaded from the earth.

Instead, I touch: The powdered organ. The thief-shaped hole.

Children can be seen as worldly things, not as souls with broken mirrors.

Silence, a weapon of choice, hung between them, cut through the air.

If you are water my left hand is a horse thief my right hand is alder smoke.

Come live with me. We could plant acorns in each other’s mouths.

touching you is a dash in the paragraph of not touching you

They met on the app in April, shortly after her twenty-ninth birthday.

You said cilím-xayqin, the very whites of my eyes you pluck out.

My father then got partials implanted, which were later punched out.

It was the season of storm delays, of . . . shame and ghosts on trains

Our spirits are as transparent as the gown my wife wears in bed.

Make haste, my love, I am redrawing the scale of escape.

She’d do anything once, to know what it was like.

It lay slumped where they’d dragged it, a fright of an animal.

Bodies, moths, destroyers. Fear like finding a bullet in a snowman.

I decide it’s as good a place as any to stop, pant & smell the roses—

He picked up the knife I had there, and said he’d kill me if ever I told.

A knife left by an untraced foot marks where to lay the body—fácil.