i.

she brought an island’s worth of family to the states, her eye beaconed the promised land of mammon, and we came. when her dementia was really bad she worried she …

The lower my estrogen dips, the more young
    men (in their delicate, whole-body certainty
that shatters like that, like ice calved off a glacier)
    grow downright adorable. …

Name a song further away than that.
Green-throated Carib,
Crested Honeykeeper.

I’m sitting in the post office parking lot
listening to the back-up beep
of a mail truck, this sheet

of sunstruck …

Let the wound caused by the serpent be cured by the serpent – Gloria Anzaldúa

I lose my fingers inside my solar plexus :: Worm
too deep, too poking, …