we raise a glass to you
and your narrow-hipped swagger
your unflinching blue eyes your half-smile
your pacing on porches your small cups of comfort
the bile rising your steady hands your
swift feet ready to flee crime-scenes as yet
undiscovered your quick
violence your sordid past your
unwashed sheets and naked pillows
your heap of bathtowels your bravado
your sly flirtations and notes passed [...]
Over the weekend I pulled a muscle in my neck, or pinched a nerve, or something. Maybe it happened while I was riding through the Texas hill country, craning my neck around at every curve to see the bluebonnets and redbonnets and yellowbonnets, which I know aren’t their real names, but this is what I [...]
Last night I attended an open mic at Monkey Wrench Books hosted by Queer Sol, an arts collective based here in Austin. I read three poems: “Girl dies in Arizona,” “An afternoon at the museum,” and “Monologue of a mystery writer.” I haven’t read in years — I think the last time was in New [...]
Several years ago — seven years actually, nearly to the day — I was sitting in a coffee shop in Brooklyn, observing two young women in conversation, and I wrote the entire experience down in detail. I wasn’t so much interested in the conversation the women were having, but the way in which they were [...]
As we all know, everyone and their dog (read this literally) has a blog. More exotic animals have blogs, too — iguanas, funny-looking giant hamster things, cats, pigs — if you can conceive of it, I’m pretty sure it has a blog. Do unicorns have blogs? Hold on, I’m going to check… no, it doesn’t [...]
Many Christmases ago, my father surprised me with a new-in-box Olivetti Valentine. He knew how much I loved the machine; knew that I’d first seen it in at the MOMA; knew that I never, ever thought I would ever own one. Apparently he scoured the states — and this was pre-eBay, for him — and [...]
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