After we slung our rotten insults, after we slammed every door, after we clawed the headboard paint instead of saying, sorry, after I dropped the tea cup just to hear something shatter, I woke to the smell of you making coffee. I could already taste the sweet cream. There you were in your Sunday morning smile, […]
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Every week I step on the tired scale wondering why I want to lose parts of myself. I open the refrigerator door just to look: It’s yellow light shines on my neat rows of sleeping children. The other people at the party indulge in their red velvet and wedding cake, as I admire my lonely […]
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The first time I found him I was sixteen. He was crumpled under his bike like an unpaid bar tab. He smelled like cigarettes and something lonely. The second time I found him I was nineteen. He was half-hanging out of the truck door, talking to himself, barefoot and shirtless, a lost child. Where I […]
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Somewhere in Indiana a mother pulls her children out of the creek, wringing them like dirty dishrags. A man cracks open his last beer on the edge of sunset, praising his fourteen hour work days and the five hundred square feet he calls home. A teenage girl chases her brother through the field by the […]
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