“He has happy rabbit sex with other rabbit dads / and the courtyard walls are pink”

“There is one butterfly marked of indecision, that doesn’t seem to want to stay put, yet in all its maneuvers never manages effective departure.”

“while I scribble my name on coastal skylines / of mass-produced cards, if only to trick you / into thinking I am in motion”

“They’re thickest in summer, skulk in the alleys, yawn on front lawns, scavenge restaurant dumpsters like rats. They have long, fleshy tails and hairy, pointed ears. They’re embodied, and also not, like how the word stray is both a noun and a verb.”

“The third snake was unearthly / black // so deep it was hard to see at all / silver and lighter gray scales // catching light like the planets we saw / at Joshua Tree”

“The first rule of Women’s Self Defense class: / Is to highly recommend it to everybody you know.”

“Anxiety doesn’t know what to do / with my face or where to put / my eyes.”

“Whooo, whooo. The whispers of a hundred pigeons take flight inside my body and I feel myself levitate into the air and open up my wings. But just as easily, I sink back down into the yawning mouth of the bed.”