When a Woman Buys a Gun, It Lies in a Man’s Room My mother is a wild thing. When a woman births a little girl, she cries into existence...

1. I grew up in a home consumed of rings. Not of marriage or vows but of wrestling and worrisome wows. A blend of heat and heels...

Strawberry-ripe, night-glow. It's where the day's heat goes. So wild, so bright, so close— secrets we need to know. It's where the day's...

Our stretch fours know Audrey Munson’s full nudity in her silent film Inspiration enhances the plot: a sculptor loses a perfect model...

BLOOMSBURY TERM In the ten-karat buff bray of English sun in late May, unquiet Americans crack croquet behind the Georgian where we...

Poem for my grandma Liberate— a statue / marble melted ivied-spine / scattered layers upon layers jointed waxed skin smokeless den She...

And we all grew mountains in an intense drowning flat curve and dawn combined for fear these parades are longer than we thought, bathing...

— ‘and that means he’s going to have such a challenging life because’— Passenging Not really listening Sun on my face Semi-rural...

Several turns down the road, through switchgrass, the paths like so many answers, you take the trail to where the lake lies like black...

The hail bruised our backs, the rain, Hart Crane. Later, in Warren, you were my only friend. At the gym, under weights, sweat on your...

I took a long flight far away from reality. It wasn’t me who set me going. It’s why when I was walking around campus pretty sure I was...

Kevin I thought we created a constellation out of Mango Carts & Fireball shots Tuesday night. You, me, & the cowboy bikers shooting pool...

The King’s Hobby As a prince, he played: the ponies, the piano. He ran gauntlets, bred ferrets, penned sonnets. Phoebes were his hobbies,...

FOGGY MORNING shear sunlight’s shaggy wool tease out color clumps gauzy prism pulling apart damp the sharp a little today spit-slicked...

They say there are two seasons in Michigan, winter and construction, but today it feels like spring. I’m getting comfortable again with...

my clothes snap-talk at the wind saying what i still can’t just flap it out pant leg and sleeve pant leg and sleeve maybe it’s easier to...

First Day on Anxiety Medication That morning at my older boyfriend’s house, after swallowing my first dose, I blacked out in the shower,...

The Sustain Pedal Poems by Carol Jennings Published by Cherry Grove Collections 2022 I was prepared to not like this poetry collection....

Coyote Vision By Dave Boles Published by Cold River Press September 2022 For centuries storytellers and poets have used wild (and...

How Soon Before the Locusts Thoughts & prayers my ass. Next door, Raheem’s back on his bullshit with the oven & the exposed gas line...