Thoughts On Monogamy
They say love is cut-and-dried But I beg to disagree. Who’s to say I can’t be in love With the soft orange glow of a neon sign Or the...
Eulogy for the Lesser
There is a kingdom underneath the earth Where winter worms go frolicking about And wait again for spring: the world’s rebirth And hearing...
Dear Cornell College: Free Speech on Campus (A Note on Sincerity in Explanation)
Dear Cornell College, I don't feel marginalized. I am marginalized. That's sociology 101. The language that has been used by...
The Farm House
I could hear gravel cackling under the tires of my mother’s minivan. A dust trail snaked behind us like a comet's tail. It persisted, a...
SID
Internal Entry. November 8th, 2019. Begin. Two years ago, they gave me eyes. The pair of them, with their own covered with the...
Yellowstone in ‘98
Waiting. That’s what we had be doing, my father, brother, and I. Waiting and watching, for thirty minutes. I remember that cold. It was...
Memory
Your life is lightning in a bottle When purple seeps onto your skin You may lick yourself there where it abides in mockery and godly...
Ode to Campus Squirrels
O squirrels that haunt this campus fair with eyes so bright and shining, Ye who attend so closely to the pattern of our dining, I can no...
Synaptic Pruning
Dendrites go to the axon. The axon goes down to the axon terminal. Myelin sheaths, white matter, full of fat they speed neurons up;...
Ticonderoga #2
She mustn’t muster a guess to the feelings he so feels. He says “hey” so weakly even a butterfly could push him down. When she looks at...