girl’s night at the clinic (for cf)
to be born into the decay and rotting meat to swim away from the land bottles emptied cracks filled we’ve got what we wanted or at least what we came for and even if we weren’t ready to be born again it happened anyway i’m so high these days and the air’s so thin gunung agung sounds like ‘begin again’ is the view of the mountain or from the [...]

i got lost in your warm shelter
back then when we reached inside we didn’t have to improvise we just shared a glance or a smoke and said what we thought that we thought and in the moments we hide and in the best of the times parts of me i never realized turn to smoke and come out of your mouth as i make you breathe we got lost in the warm shelter buried alive by [...]

birthday poem for el why
tell me about your heart and i’ll tell you about mine the long tendrils that reach in and out at the same time a one way street that goes both ways always both the beginnings and endings which never began nor ended but are simply there to tie things up to make sure we know that time doesn’t exist by letting us see how it works i [...]

drop
there is a bomb in every drop in every load you carry passed down to the next generation discharged like a traitor like an orgasm it crosses the line and makes stars where once there was only skydrop photo: jacky winter group

function follows form
it was there on your masthead, that’s how i knew to lay my bones aside and use my heart something about adrienne rich and a swirl of color the shape of the name you chose it is what let me know there was something there maybe not something to hold but something to carry with me so what about the analog girls the ones [...]