January 2023

in the belly of the beast is a vegetable lasagna

maybe my uneasiness wrangling, tentacle netoozing a thick creme de creme phlegm

THE RED STRAW

startled– did I do something wrong?  my name was called mid-act, the turn of my neck, the elevation of my chin.  he sees the burned crimson on my plumped lips.  a thick line, from tongue to inside, hovering over–  my holy book breaths.  curved, puffy, moist, alien, shimmering, rotating,  extroverted, and  bittersweet. the red straw, […]

PUERTO RICO

my skin has crisped  like the crunchy french fry won in a game of dibs  but it is still as porous as ever.  the illumination  dissolves my slime-coated impulses  and my prickle thorn desires into an Eden:  pistachio palm trees, lime iguanas, and the teal ocean.  I fear muddy snow, harsh winds and the urban rainforest,  with […]

galactic things

Golden curls, the sun’s rays in my bed. Expansive body; she’s a universe.The black holes on her neck are moving.Falling in, tongue first. Take me please.I only want to exist inside you. But she pops me out.And the whiplash cracks my neck. My foolish jaw gapes –God, I am perpetually twelve. Maybe it is because…I burrowed. […]

Ode to Lou Reed

Ode to Lou Reed Astor’s dandruff isn’t sticking. Inadequate typing from a stupid suburban stranger, a hipster from another planet waves, “hello,” and won’t return into their spaceship.  Not your mother,Not your colleague or friend, Not your nephew or stalker, Don’t know your true voice, Don’t know what you thought before death, Thought in the past year, Or thought at all, But […]

Merqueer

Dreads down to her waist,green like seaweed,smells like bleach, chlorine,grungy clean.She lifts them high,thick straight lines reaching the sky,and sand pours out in piles. Seashells, beach dirt, broken claws, and pearls, from her dreads to my ankles. I shout, “Mam, I think you dropped something.”She jerks her head to the opposing direction.I angle towards her, […]

In Which I Beg To The Holy Trident To Not Be Turned Into Algae

My blurred eyes look up at nothing.Only blue.Fingers clutching mud, as I choke.Choke up a wail.Think this high-pitched emphasis is my last word. I have fallen too deep.Where the sea is lonely but plentiful.Only blue nothingness.Where the pressure grabs me from the thorax and spine. Flaccid gills.Seizing fins. Guess I’m less than I ever imagined. […]

Part of Your World (Bird is the Word Remix)

edge of the Ocean;my cave, my home.ceiling of barnacles, poisonous: they burnand everything is black, black,pitch black dullness— Is the Ocean truly vast if you are contained? scorpionfish guardians:“there are sharks out there” I touch my mouth – HARDEN;my arms – LIGHTEN;my size – SHRINK;my fin – FEATHER. Nourished; but I hate it here.Nourished; but […]

on quite possibly the blackest day We ever seen i’m talking, black like oblivious to snot stains black. i’m talking blinded by a galactic hood, night’s dust in your eyes black even on that day, i could see how much i love you.  We were all twisted with a similar eye-strainto the one We are blinded with today awe in Our […]

oh okay. 

“I’m your pet now.”  A tail curls around your waist.  Meaty arms branded with moldish ghoul bites.  An unkempt ouija board jerking a seizures of vowels but don’t take that. Blue eyes respond, “Please?” permission is tangled; two-sided leash. a tug and a follow, heading somewhere. ghoul is curled up “Your eyes are budding.” two […]