Okay, so here it is: I've worked in a real office with real doors for a year. I've decided I am not professional. I like wearing sneakers...

Outside the building During gray showers I am entertaining a cigarette Underneath my umbrella. Nearby, a mother folds her child Into her...

I arrive to the bar on Thursday night for writing group And attempt to domesticate love words, But they escape me like herds that Have...

I go to church to bond with my father, Who is distant and a Roman Catholic only by name. Personally, what I am looking forward to (Me,...

You prayed for the first time in your life While knelt next to the couch to retrieve The tennis ball your dog shoved under it, And you...

It is the seventeenth day of rain in Los Angeles, But we are currently in the eye of the storm. I am bewildered by the rain. I've only...

Is my life worth: A financier at my favorite coffee shop, A single gallon of gas in some parts of the country, A carton of a dozen brown...

The document gently slides out of the machine and lands on the plastic dock. It reads that I will become someone else's baby for the last...

She arrives in my life like Nude Descending a Staircase by Duchamp And sits on the rattan chair that I've set on milk crates for this...

Kindness is not a heavy bargain. Why else does the wind persist during a heatwave— And I know for certain I love you. I will never be...

When we are together and alone I unfurl like a leaf, Spilling everything inside of me that I've kept all the week. And since the sun must...

You and I experience the world The way that a tender doe Experiences flight, Then falls on its side in relief, Gratefulness, Newfound...

See how The Flower behaves when you dote on it? How it unfurls, unsheathes, unfolds? See how the waters tide towards you repetitiously?...

Often, I imagine us reconnecting At a social event in between our neighborhoods And you're much healthier than you were, And I am same as...

I open my french doors to the sunlight and soot of another day. Birds are chirping—it's so cliche. I am rolling off the mattress to walk...

Say you'll love me, flower. Set forth your pollen in my direction. Send pregnant petals full of fragrance. Entwine your roots into my...

Why would you touch me like that if you loved me? Do calendula petals work in a dark bedroom? I want sirens in your neighborhood every...

We toss up our knees in hurried fashion. Scramble into a tight carriage. I remember jokes about mackerel. It is a close fit in the...

Summer sun made the day Come in fat with an apple in its mouth And tumble over heat for hours you and I Got the spoils of a supple...

…When we give, if the palm stays open, We are in the perfect position to receive. I am always keen to hear about myself from other people...