Yellow Girl Hymnal
I. Come, Lord, let us welcome you home, Let us be shy when you take off your shoes, Let us …
I. Come, Lord, let us welcome you home, Let us be shy when you take off your shoes, Let us …
So you felt like kissing yourself in the bathroom mirror, all tongue and all slipperiness and chemicals, all cold-tasting and …
Good girls sometimes don’t feel like going home. They buy cheap microwaved rice balls and sit in the streets. They …
Her dentures have escaped her mouth. Her fingers, Made of canines, Step deftly out of hell; Their devil-given powers do …
Blue whales float in the sky In blithe heaviness. They have beached themselves among the clouds Peacefully, Like an enlightenment, …
I know your father’s size, And his closet won’t fit you. Your necks are too different, Oliver. The sleeves …
The air in my room Hangs a static curtain Over hours spent nibbling and chipping. At nighttime it sinks, …
A pigeon, Feathers matted And beak burrowing into nothingness, Shallow breath laboring to sustain the dead-weight body. Already giving up. …
My eyes wandered to a Jellyfish And I threw a fit- Please, Let me back on the boat Phantom …
I have forgiven myself already For the shortcut I took today And for the honey on my fingers, The crumbs …
I have heard it said that what goes up, must come down And all that rises from the dirt …