Ode to the Jungle: A Love Letter
Within my body, beneath the bones a wildness thrives – A mess of tangled vines climbs my ribs in search...
Blanco
Cumulonimbus tidal waves blanket the sky like an overcast of clean bed sheets calming you into a dream. It’s...
Crossroads at the Crosswalk
I. On one of those dreary Autumn days, rain collects in the asphalt. These canals will soon freeze split the ground beneath my feet...
Spitting Image
I share my mother’s cuticles, her calloused hands and round knuckles that crack every morning like chimes on a clock. I carry my mother’s...
epileptic
the night nurses chain-smoke outside of cape cod hospital, drink their coffee from styrofoam dixie cups, and pick lint off their pastel...
Tied Down
The rope was knotted when I found it. White and worn, tense from the front to back with knots stretching as long as 5 feet and 11...
Proposed Questions for the Naturalization Test
Are you the color of Congress, the Senate, and the tacky walls of the Oval Office? Do you speak the right language, is it with the right...
Home for the Holidays
Mother told me, her roundness as the Earth, “You should watch your weight.” #2018 #IrisEMcPherson #poetry
A Rejected Women's Razor Ad
The all new redesigned Venus razor will give you the smoothest shave you’ll ever get and sits in the endless repertoire of beauty that’s...
Perennials
His fingers across the clay ridges Of my valleys, because he Likes the way it sounds. § I’ve been showing him where I hide My...
