Shade Literary Arts

ninkarrak My lover showed me the dawn. She showed me the sunrise & the shape of the moon. I lit the sky alive with morning praise. I...

Perspective is everything, darling are you bleeding out or floating? each arrow a shivered life— the deal: we all die slow then faster,...

In a small voice, she says: perhaps, if the things I want are small enough, and smooth enough, they will be forgotten and not taken from...

my dear friend calls it serendipitous every time she runs into someone she knows on the street. i know we all live on this campus, she...

What did Echo do for you to hate her? The men who mimic him crawl on their bellies into your life woo and fawn and kiss your haired legs...

PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: EMPTINESS MY HEART WHEN IT IS SUFFUSED WITH ENVYPOISON LEGISLATURES THE SUN SHINING OUT OF OUR MOUTHS 401KS OF...

Switchback mara once took this road & her car broke down in the middle of a night / like tonight / but i don't care, i take the road too...

we wore watermelon husks to hide lost cargo floating east to hong kong water lilies & crickets our last witness we departed the cattailed...

A man on a bus brushes his hair from the crown and then out. Recreating the ocean tide. I do as anyone would; when presented with the...

in this one, i am a sheepshead; a freak of nature and hard to hold onto. in this one, you cut open my stomach. gasp when you find blood...