Poetry ’26

Poetry '26

For JoAnne

towards the end of it, my grandma believed she was a girl again: raw in the scab, a child pig-tailed in the Midwest pre-destiny that

Poetry '26

Aesthetic

She wants to be Cruella, disintegrating into a glamorous obsession, lost  but only slightly crazed. She hasn’t been abandoned in the woods and these aren’t

Poetry '26

Patienting

patienting it will never be an obsolete gerund/ living/ this whatever it is/ it’s breathing a run-on sentence far more than just labeling/ we are