Barely Knit Together

It’s a beautiful day to be kissed on the street, to be swept up, your face cradled in palms, hair tucked gently behind your ears by long fingers, to discuss poetry in the park or play with words, flipping them in the sunshiny heat to see what shakes out. Could be it’s a day to [...]

I walk around the city for the better part of a hot, humid day. The smell of urine and trash comes at me from every corner. I tolerate it, but the tiny breaths I take cause my panic to rise closer to the surface, until I duck into a store, into the air conditioning pouring [...]