SAMPLER
HEAVY
—POETRY Magazine, 2017
"Probe"
—POETRY Magazine, 2017
"B.F.F."
—BuzzFeed, 2017
—The Offing, 2016
“White Boy Time Machine: Software”
—Guernica, 2016
—The Paris-American, 2015
“Reunion”
—Vinyl, 2014
The narrow clearing down to the river
I walk alone, out of breath
my body catching on each branch.
Small children maneuver around me.
Often, I want to return to my old body
a body I also hated, but hate less
given knowledge.
Sometimes my friends—my friends
who are always beautiful & heartbroken
look at me like they know
I will die before them.
I think the life I want
is the life I have, but how can I be sure?
There are days when I give up on my body
but not the world. I am alive.
I know this. Alive now
to see the world, to see the river
rupture everything with its light.