The Ocean “And the ones who can know you so well Are the ones that can swallow you whole.” – Dar Williams There is a nostalgia bigger than the sky itself when I step towards the surf, an impossible longing pushing me forward, cuffs pants shirt soaked, each wave a visual echo, a sweeping gesture […]

In Between Lives Heaven is the basement of a friend’s house down the street and everybody is their invincible and arguably most attractive early-20’s self, and there are vaguely exotic-looking tapestries on the walls with flower and water patterns you just stand and look at in between conversations. You are in the strangest kind of […]

Etiquette Last week, a mother told me, the only people present at her daughter’s birth were her husband and her midwife. “I didn’t want my mother or anyone there, because… all the sounds you make…” She smiled and looked away, looking embarrassed. The mysterious, primal memory looked strangely anachronistic at the kitchen table with red […]

Love Letter to Earth Little dear one sweet whirl of atoms most precious mystery unchain yourself from the sorrow they have woven into you the violence, the erratic shifts and movements of your tiniest parts there is no peace but this flow of unknown current remember always everything is traumatic to a water droplet step […]

Compost It took me almost three weeks of shredding stalks of okra and ginger into the compost to really understand what lay before me, pulsing damp warmth onto the skin of my arms, To look into the slowly-warping scraps of vegetables, the crumbling eggshells, the thin white spinnings of mycelium, the dark, hidden mysteries of […]

Dear J, I had a dream a few weeks ago that I visited my grandma in the New Jersey facility, and her eyes were big with a fear I’d never seen on her. She told me she was going to die, and that she didn’t want to; it was so unfair. I drew her to […]

“Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.” – Rumi On days when I wake up angry at you, I try to be fair. I remind myself how I envy cats, their ability to curl themselves into any shape, surrounded snugly with a body. I remember, I fell asleep last night with my knees […]