one sugar cube
Poetry

my nostalgic side was like can we go back to the days of landlines

But you treat me like a collapsible chair! A chair you slump onto when there's no softer one.

Drained wind flattens hearts of gold-wrapped candy

A sparrow attracted by the rice is singing a song of love

I disappointed Michael J. Fox last night in a dream because I don’t miss Spin City more.

It's raining over the city / I only hear the noise of the refrigerator.

I found you in songs back then and still hear their whispers now.

Imagine a shower That also quenches your thirst.

I’m alone on that quiet stretch of road today / hitting pause on a Julien Baker song

You seem like a person and not a robot (in a good way).

At the Frick, the Fragonards and silence / Offer at least a modicum of solace.

On a balcony high above the glittering lights of the City, drinking a martini and flirting with the cool kids

Where eyelids are orange peels / And the sunlight throws / fuzzy, fizzy orange and yellow starbursts

You peel and pull until the skin is as raw and as red

He licks sweet strawberry scorn / Fresh from a hand-blown faucet

Picking at purple butterfly pea flowers / as they dance just beneath the boiling point

The early bird drinks coffee from its fountain

I awake to ocean & dunes / To uppity cerulean

Her front door has no screen

The neighborhood is empty. The fireflies are dead.