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  • sniff

    After returning to work from lunch today, I smelled an unpleasant scent emitting from my person. It smelled like dog. I sniffed my hands, my elbows, my shirt, my pants, no luck. And then…

  • Tuesday

    Tuesday a day of extended anxiety “on” for the job “on” for my class and just for kicks when I’m tired enough to rest my head a phone call cancer is terminal again nothing…

  • New Guy, Same Story.

    The new one says casually I like you. I say, I like you, too. We continue driving barely touching fingers. That new one with his easy smile that I sense is not so easy.…

  • Trilogy of 10-line Poems

    Between Birth and Decay My aunt had cancer. Actually, she still does. It’s just rotting with her bones in an underground cavern. Between birth and decay, it’s the suffering that counts. Malinger away. Two…

  • Killing My Mother(s)

    Am I going to kill my mother? My Aunt Ty died. Now, two other aunts on that same side of the family have cancer. These three aunts have at least one thing in common:…

  • entrapment

    So this is simultaneously it end of him, end of him the two of them should run off together bound by their would-be wounded souls unchained to my inconvenience and instability. I should give…

  • jilting: the best of

    I know I was jilted because of my freckles, at least once. Two, maybe four, times for my hair. They always said they liked short girls but when you’re trying to get laid, that’s…

  • Update on the Update of Motherhood.

    I am now a mother!!!!!!!!!!!! Poppy and I are getting along famously in our 24-hour relationship. She is an older dog, at four, but she’s everything I wanted in a dog. She doesn’t understand…

  • An Update on Motherhood.

    I’m sad to say I will not be adopting Ro. The foster family said she needed a companion dog. Forget that I would provide her with a permanent home, instead of a halfway house.…