‘Trans World’ Is Redundant My boy accosts the Wendy’s worker who ma’am’d him through the intercom at the drive through. I’m a man! he says, you’re a boy! I say, and teen says sorry! Between suiciding around cis men and playing dead, I find my footing dissociating into fungus. Skirt boy’s hot mic monologue […]
What Happened Was Impossible
in the sense that these things can’t happen, like you opened a chest and greek goddesses flew out and what they did How many? at least six. The greek goddesses, what they did is, they were hungry having been in a trunk A wood trunk? wooden, yes, it was cedar and the first thing they […]
The Family Teeth
After our mother died, The Father began to go through his reporting papers and the heaps and hills of family documents kept in a large wooden chest from Mexico, locked with a giant iron lock and key. The chest, part of the spoils from their years abroad, smelled of candle wax and toasted wood. He […]
Excerpt from Whorl
The headache is the limit, the circle, the disk. The black horizon. Sometimes it’s a dull, red glow, soft latitudes of pain. Or a field of searing, orange craters. They burst open through the dark. Or, with a gentler hurt: tall, blowing vanes of magnetized color. Sometimes it’s still. Maybe then, it sleeps. When it […]
EXCERPT: BLACKFISHING THE IUD
This week SeaWorld announced that it will phase out the orca shows at its San Diego theme park within two years and attempt to rebrand as an animal conservation rather than an entertainment company. It’s a move that comes in response to mounting protests against the holding of orca, and to efforts by California lawmakers […]
Defacing the Monument (excerpt)
1. 2. The word “economic” does not appear in the text of the Department of Homeland Security’s webpage entitled “Obtaining Asylum in the United States” is not uttered into the court record. The word “economic” remains in my mouth at the back of the courtroom where I sit scribbling on a legal pad, dangling like […]