He does the dishes He doesn’t care I don’t fold laundry well He’s just happy I do at all He thinks I’m pretty Even when I’ve gained...

As we walked briskly through One of the airports on one of our trips I spotted a guy with a sunflower tie It was definitely too much But...

I found something I'd written about her just six years ago That I only cry in movies that remind me of her That each time she was hurt or...

If people were cities She was the city of sin Flashing lights, put on a show Thrive in the attention Respond only to applause And...

She tells us— “When you take the Body of Christ Pray for something. It’ll come true. I prayed every time that one day I would become a...

you’re not the one that got away drunk texts, glances and grins but never a date, never a kiss when all you had to do was lean just a few...

It was as if we took few large steps back Or maybe we simply didn’t care before About the boys shot because they’re black They’re on TV...

avoid boys, mon coeur, who smell of cigarettes and poets who cannot write without referencing something French or cigarettes.

Met a woman with cat eyes and a French tongue, an old virgin with pale, supple breasts soft curls if she feels like it Amazonian legs...

I grew up not daring to ask for the souvenir they would be overpriced, meaningless clutter now I buy mouse ears and Taylor Swift...

To keep myself from breaking To get a break from tossing and turning To turn off my brain and stopping To stop making lists and planning...

And now you spend twenty dollars at Trader Joe’s every two weeks or so you examine the petals you create your own bouquet many are not up...

call me difficult but so is life who the fuck wants to be easy.

these fast letters, they haunt my days with immediacy that punches my gut they arrive whether I am ready or not hint in the subject,...

head arched back my hair grows out the earth I peer at the world upside down even the crowd of skyscrapers look no taller than the grass...

That’s my ex-wife from our trip to Ohio, looking as if she’s actually enjoying herself. Do sit and take a look at how she’s smiling – and...

you want to be an exemption to the therapy I get when you are the reason for the two hundred dollars per hour.

You always tell the waiters At the end of our dates, If she’s happy I’m happy And each time it makes me Happy. At our early Valentine...

to my first real jerk who read me poetry spoke spiritedly of trips we would never take who broke my heart little by little, it hurt more...

I am no philosopher. I write pretty words sometimes in random shapes, like this to s h a k e i t u p – and people who like them, like...