Spend your soul.

DO17 I ordered some ribbon on Amazon for a project destined to be a magnificant objet d’art. My intentions were not the best because I knew my track record for magnificent art looked a lot like Charlie Brown’s record for good dates with Lucy. But I fantasized anyway about seeing…

I got a deck of cards for Christmas. They looked like regular, standard issue playing cards at first glance. I could smell cheesy, salty trans fat snacks of Frito-Lay and taste the heavily poured whiskey sours that were light on the sour. I heard the laughter of card table sarcasm…

I asked the universe to deliver my man to me. Two days later, the universe tossed these two onto my shoreline. These two translates into the Frenchman and the Brit who materialized close to same time but arrived in different cars. The Frenchman sent his missive by casually sliding into…

Last week I ate a roost of butterflies against my will. My mouth was closed, but they found a way in through my neural pathways when I saw you. They took a deep dive into my bloodstream that flowed directly into my heart, jumped onto an airstream coming from my…

People save all their good dishes for special occasions. Then they die. Life is special. Use your dishes.

These beasts were not beastly. No more so than humans are beasts or behave beastly towards others. These beasts didn’t come for us. No one knew where they came from. One day they just appeared. Swimming in a channel that was made from war by men who acted like beasts. …

Frayed ends It’s messy. It’s tangled. It’s ugly. It’s knotted, full of chaos. You want to be free but can’t find a way out of the fray you created to free yourself from the tether you inherited. Look harder. Look better. It’s beautiful. It’s strong. It’s fearlessly detangling itself from…

I don’t know how to sit still for long. I like to flee when it gets unbearable. I’m not ready to process anything because it feels like nothing matters except how I feel and I can’t remember if I know how to feel or if that is in fact, feeling. …