“You are / distracted, so / the spirit / cannot summon / you at / midnight hunger”
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“You are / distracted, so / the spirit / cannot summon / you at / midnight hunger”
“across the empty highway—how I slowed the car, prayed to survive that terrifying beauty.”
“I just want to tear away everything / that is irrelevant, and love you like a broken lever”
“…it seemed the farther they traveled from home, the closer they were to those stars.”
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“ships of rats to the farthest parts of the world. Here / if you empty a space, something will live in it.”
“One of us remembers the honeyed ink / in the waiting womb…”
“I’d hear this man’s footsteps above me when in bed, trying to trap the sound of his feet with my eyes…”
“for her daughters to release her / into the river of her choosing”
“…I can see it’s a black, shrunken stick about ten feet high, stripped of the bark I once ran my fingers over.”
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“…my parents’ divorce agreement, a tarot deck, an armadillo that sang a funny song when you squeezed its belly…”
“He’s not unreasonable, he tells me. But he’s genuinely alarmed by the extent of the first-round edits.”
“The sky peels back like a tinfoil lid and something putrid creeps in...”
