• Pablo

    Pablo

    The cat eats plastic, obsessively, / like a real freak, and it seems we’re always / ripping something out of his mouth…

  • Meet The Edge

    Meet The Edge

    I want to live by the ocean. / Trade city slurs for crashing / waves / and live on the edge / of mother’s…

  • Road to Resources

    Road to Resources

    We forage for beef jerky, / transform water into Red Bull, / barter for maps with broken / prayers of safety…

  • Errant Satellites

    Errant Satellites

    After the wrong rocket collided with the moon / By way of lodestar, / we find our way to a / dark trampoline, thin…

  • 12/11/2020 – 2:31 (am)

    12/11/2020 – 2:31 (am)

    i was lost, so i killed my sanity/ honed my discipline/ trained to solve non-problems chosen by tortured people/ because i thought i needed…

  • Trying to Molt When Young

    Trying to Molt When Young

    Under the benches / of the girl’s locker room, / in a small private elementary school, / is my deadname, calligraphy in the wood.…

  • Who Am I?

    Who Am I?

    Who am I? / Al-Zaitoon from the forgotten land. / 1948, at three, on foot from Haifa to Sidonto Amman / Until his last…

  • Fate Lies In Red Thread

    Fate Lies In Red Thread

    Two people, connected. Connected through two lives. A life that could have been beautiful Was hard and exhausting instead. You cut it short in…

  • Well that’s Rich! (2020)

    Well that’s Rich! (2020)

    I stand       in line for the        fruit punch  boxed juice        and straws to pierce the         plastic  clutching three          new…

  • generic vampire poem

    generic vampire poem

    I sink my teeth into your text. I scroll through vineyards of unskippable ads and wonder what I’ll have for lunch. Simon Turner’s poetry…