Prison Politics

Teaching at Garden State Prison the morning after the election.

Homecoming, Pinellas County, Florida

Fiction, and a little airport anxiety.

Jewish Wisdom

Love, lust, and etsah in the Orange Bubble.

The Opera Singer

The story of a birth, and a basket of cheese fries

Anna Berghuis

It’s okay, I can’t pronounce it either.

I Was With Her

On Hillary Clinton, after the election.

Sunday Afternoon, April

There is a tiny man in her hair and he is screaming at me. “Hello there!” He is screaming. “Please remove me from this strand of hair!” He is screaming. “This is a terribly inconvenient place for me to be right now!” He is screaming.

Lo and Lana

Re-constructing Lolita with Lana Del Rey

What Should We Call Her?

Reflections on names, race, and memories.

DEAR AMERICA I WANT TO ASK YOU A QUESTION

I want to go on a road trip through your belly
find dirt along the Ohio River thick with skeletons

Trumpymandius

A poem with some “help” from Percy Shelley

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