At seventeen, I get the boy who took my virginity tattooed on my right thigh. I’ve always wanted a tattoo, and I planned to get my siblings’ handprints, overlapping and merging into one inkblot, stamped […]
Two Poems
Human Term(s) hu·man /ˈ(h)yo͞omən/ adjective relating to or characteristic of people or human beings. “the human body” fake, unreal, imagined, malleable, pathetic, skin sack someone is inside of us “don’t kid yourself—you’re vile” “like the […]
Anyway Here’s Wonderwall
I wrote this in 2008. I had just left a job in the financial sector right before the crisis. My close friend and writing partner had just died, and when that happened, I put away […]
A rose
A face, the pearl in the centre of a pendant
glowing to you, a sacred thing,
to keep me safely at your chain.
Rejection Letter: Michael McGill
…and the narrow eyes of the poets glaze over at this point, for ‘unfortunately’ is a word we wear well.
Late Night Edits in Google Docs (On Rejecting Your Own Writing)
12:10 AM:
There is no story. There is literally no story in this story.
Anatomical Rejections
We review hundreds of asses, and while we feel this reflects well upon our unique features and reputation, the downside is that we simply cannot accommodate every ass.
Regions Are Women, Villages Are Men
When speaking in one’s mother tongue, the flow of the sentence is intuitive. You weave the words together, synthesizing them into sentences that can be parsed without issues by your conversational partner. “It is,” “I […]
Rejection Letter: Amee Nassrene Broumand
We’re extremely disturbed by the sample photos you sent, as well as your accounts of stalking people in the woods and scaring the bejesus out of them.
Rejection Letters 