Hotbed 24
You can’t prove it. Nobody can. Still I believe she never repeated herself. I have read her words while sitting down or standing up or flat on my back. I have leaned on pillows and read them over and over again and every time they sound different depending on the ache and altitude of my day and desire.
Hotbed 57
Traveling a West Texas highway in a baby-blue Prius. The driver picked me up at the El Paso airport. He doesn’t talk much. He picks up writers all the time and drives them to another lonely desk.
Artist: Stephanie Broussard
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Artist: Siri Margaret Stensberg
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Artist: Kelsey Baker
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Artist: Sarah Hussein
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Curfew
1. My body was colonized / in a language of silence. / Strands of my hair entrapped the ghosts
in the wind, / they were not held prisoner / but the abrasions kept them warm—or stuck.
Do You Love Her
like his hair the night curling around us // receding from the question // he has outdriven
Eros Was a Boy I Loved in High School
You’re Chaos-born in a post-practice ice-bath; / you need heat. I fold paper into cranes and find you / hidden in each crease. I cut a hole in my skull.
Fat Rabbit Thrift & Vintage
Two brooches for the price of lint.
Dolls boxed beneath hung tees.
Blonde & black-haired amputees.
Spring Concert
The notes in the air are awakening, deep / in thought, and a little cold, probably / stretching just before the declaration / emerging from the bell of the clarinet that the boy
Lavender Menace Adopts a Black Boy
In summer black boy burns. Say,
black boy takes shelter. Imagine
summer camp. Black boy afloat
in Lake Michigan. Black boy
Lavender Menace Considers Adoption in the Trump Era
I’m so American I close my ports / of nourishment with a bit of bread / a bourbon, a burrito bowl, a nipple / a penis. I take in and in like oceans