Last night, you were making gnocchi. They glistened

like plump pallid lips, thick and chewy, but as I stared

I saw vulvas, wet and waiting, simmering and slick.

1. Liquid Protest After Emma Sulkowicz

2. The Red Carpet

1. Guttural As A Jammed Cassette

2. Jousting With The Grim Reaper

I've been abroad of my body,

crackled in spaces I thought not my own,

to understand electrons, airborne, us borne;

1. HIS PAINS UNKNOWN

2. Palazzo Dei Congressi

3. All-Inclusive

1. Sunset in Arkansas

2. New Jewelry

3. A Party Of The People I Love

1. Outings (with homage to Lisa Robertson)

2. no-name parkette

3. stepping

1. Stoma

2. Some Varieties of Monsters

1. Nov 5, 2023

2. Mondegreen

3. Korean Interiors

1. within my autistic language

2. struggling to fit into language

3. who gets to struggle with language publicly

I remember it

as something I did

to make the body lighter.

I wrote, then burned.

I placed what remained on my tongue,

Exercise/exorcism of domestic imaginings -- when wonder is waning in restrictive margins beaten into the

page by mangled feet stepping to a monotonous, deafening pitch of life.

1. Soul Food

2. Galveston, 1865

3. La flor de canela (cinnamon flower)