"we never reach a point at which our lives lie before us as a clearly marked open road, never have and never should expect a map to the years ahead, never do close those circles that seem, at thirteen and fourteen and nineteen, so urgently in need of...

Aging, at all. I want that. And to fall/ perhaps most honestly in love/ beside the ocean, in a home I've paid/ for by doing as I like: drinking good wine, dusting sugar over a croissant, or the stage play I am writing myself into. Rio Cortez At 15...

in your thirties everything needs fixing. i bought a toolboxfor this. From Karla Cordero's "Everything Needs Fixing" Everything needed fixing in my thirties. I had quit. I had gotten fired. I had moved across the country. I had burned. I had built...

“L’Siren,” says the Frenchwoman, sliding a faux/ ivory bangle engraved with a mermaid on my wrist./ I run a thumb across fin and scale until I come to her/ face: full lips, round nose, hair dreadlocked. I recognize/ her face, balance her many n...