Desire, Need and Love

Gmail just suggested I change “bodhisattvas” to “bedsheets.” Really, Gmail? My sentence would have read: Bedsheets were placed on this earth, in throngs, for a reason—out of hope, desire, need and love.

I am the day.

This advice is from a wiki entry on how to take erotic photos of yourself, but it works for writing a poem as well: If you don’t like these results, try again in a different room or outfit.

I just had a phonological breakdown / emergency.

Me: I am married to you for a reason. My Husband: I don’t think that’s actually true.

These days, I always smell like sweet onions.

No matter what I wear, I always wind up looking like a soft turnip.

When a cherry fell into my bra on tonight’s glean, I probably shouldn’t have joked about having a third nipple.

I visited with eight alpaca this evening.

Let go and let good.

‘Toward What Is Awful,’ YesYes Books

Published as a digital collection as part of its Poetry Shots series alongside work by Nick Flynn and Dorothea Lasky, Toward What Is Awful is no longer available through YesYes Books. Screenshots of the collection are below. Click here for an accessible version of the text in this collection. Contact me if you have trouble with the accessible file. Artwork by Ghangbin Kim.

Sections of Toward What Is Awful first appeared in Alice Blue and Vinyl Poetry.

Also in this section: In the Space Where I Was (Hyacinth Girl Press) and The Spare Room (Blood Pudding Press).