There is never enough sweetness on the tongues of weapons They walk around march around skip around as if their bitterness won’t kill...

I sit on my living room floor surrounded by clear glasses of water. They sparkle against the show the sunrise plays for us. My mouth goes...

there’s a charnel house at the back of my property I go there to sing to the bones my melodies are ghastly, sorrowful ruinous, but the...

We fall as snow against the anger of the sun you’re cold & your fingertips burn mine my flesh sizzles, the coldest of fires wraps me,...

I don’t want to be the best lay she’s ever had. And although I’ve never had any complaints, the way I touch someone - from a one-night...

there are loves like snapdragons quick green as silent meadows there are emotions like alligators fierce sneaky, ravenous there are boats...

I have a saying that September begins when October ends, or maybe it’s October lives inside September. I’ve always thought of September...

The strobe lights come apart on Burgundy’s face in a million fractured colors at once. The moment I see blue on the tops of her cheeks it...

There are no guns in Knox County only knives people use to dig, relentlessly for reasons to live There are no knives in Knox County only...

My heart beats in hues of Knoxville Tennessee - all I see, everything I’ve ever felt In the colored section of town (east) there’s a...

i don’t remember my name only pale pink dogwoods and sticky summers i don’t remember my name only soccer practices late into the night...

sometimes when i pass by mirrors and the sunlight is fragments of reality i see myself rushing in and out of it, reality as spare parts,...

i know you love east tennessee you dream of the smokies i know you taste pine even though you live in the desert i know when there’s a...

there’s a black bear sitting in the woods, behind my house i love her, and the slick tufts of hair piled atop her skull the same one...

Between sips of coffee Between breaths Between steps, the air Between the clouds of my childhood home and wherever I live in thirty years...