Coming Down and Out Inside the Screw Factory

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Evolution

First published Red, a literary magazine

My penis fell off one day when I was eight.
It’s just that I was running so fast
With scissors
It was an accident.
My uncle soldier found it on the ground and handed it back to me.

Rico at Fifteen

First Published Ballard Street Poetry Journal

I like to walk the line
A sight
Sore thighs
In the middle of the road
School bus
Yellow
Out here away from the trees, I feel braver
somehow.

Last Night

Coming Down and Out Inside the Screw Factory

Calling all fairies
Who have shown me the ways
To a prince and his balls,

Loaned me their pumpkins,
Their works, their dresses,
And men.

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