When I see the little holes where the earrings used to be I wonder what they embraced and then renounced to get to now.

Nirvana is acquittal, wearing sweatpants in an empty cou… drunk, singing songs about the Southland. God has fashioned my heart like a…

The choir of the saints is heartle… They’ve parried happiness a lifeti… seeking only the old earth, the marsh of the meek— where earnest suffering

Tears tears do a walk-by unload the clip don’t know why now

I saw him on the side of the road, on the side of the interstate exit… Maybe he was 18, definitely not 21… tired but not yet haggard. The moment I saw him

That one more, chasing the dragon, carrot dangling,

Ancient meadow preadolescence, burgeoning and righteous never-ending dimension first sighted past your fingertips… is stolen by ambition,

I would lie with my hand on the B… I would lie with my hand on a stac… of Holy Qurans. I would look you dead-in-the-eye, and tell you a lie.

Forget shoplifting, not pushing your cart back to the cart-corral is the true crime. Amazing,

I once found in what appeared to be cistern carved within a boulder, an owl’s wing,

Whether you’re preaching to the ch… or your words fall on deaf ears, just know you won’t swing a single vote.

A Sacred Site, to my mind, is the last place you’ll ever stan… Such a place reveals hypocrisy without shaming,

Needless of a judge, a contrite heart is a bird suspended on a current, shifting myriad planes without asking or telling.

I’ll give you what I got, I can part with it all. I have gifts— A silk tongue,