“across the empty highway—how I slowed the car, prayed to survive that terrifying beauty.”

“I just want to tear away everything / that is irrelevant, and love you like a broken lever”

“ships of rats to the farthest parts of the world. Here / if you empty a space, something will live in it.”

“One of us remembers the honeyed ink / in the waiting womb…”

“for her daughters to release her / into the river of her choosing”

“Growing humidity is concealed behind a trapdoor of secrets.”

“…that eager, / kicking foot. There’s nothing in me now”

“Forgive or condem / (whatever man), but to go back is to run”

“always save the marriage / i want to be saved too”