Back in the 90s if you could tie
a cherry stem in your mouth it meant
you were good with your tongue
and everyone wanted a piece of that

— Oversound, Issue Seven (2021)

Come famished to the bitter table.
Come late and take all we made.

— Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 22 (2020)

Cried every day, logged it:
Here, in the grocery store checkout line.
Here, driving past the fire station.
Here, in my office parking lot.

— Quarterly West, Issue 104 (2020)

The lake is dark and murky. We sit on the wooden pier and let our legs hang over the edge.

— The Texas Review, All-Essay Issue (2020)

Hypothesis: Hybridity is a formal response to the threat of annihilation—as in erasure, silencing, abnegation.

— Matters of Feminist Practice, A Journal of Literary Criticism (2020)

when i / make a sound do i / make it in an a / merican way / ? /

— Denver Quarterly (2020)

Fig. 247.3 Child reaches out for
Fig. 247.4 Bewildered woman shakes
the child off
Fig. 247.5 Child screaming
[screaming continues]

— Conjunctions (2019)

I was sitting cross-legged on the carpeted floor. He was sitting on a low stool picking at his guitar. Then he put it down. Got up and closed the door.

I remember the door clicking shut. The sudden stillness in the room.

— Notre Dame Review, Issue 48 (2019)

What is history if not the breath
of the damned rising up?

— Hyperallergic (2019)

I decide to study Korean and so I spent a series of Saturday afternoons in a cramped classroom fifty miles from home.

— Essay Daily (2018)

The idea of give and take emphasizes transfer and transformation, thus animating the space between things – object and object, person and object, person and person, person and planet, and so on.

— Manual Issue 8, RISD Museum (2017)

I have said terrible
things and I have
meant them

— Two Serious Ladies (2014)

I must admit that none of this thrills me.

— Wigleaf (2013)