Finding Love With Travel

You travel to find love, only to realize it to be where you’d left it

Oh, the Founders You’ll Meet!

The varied, fanciful, and delightful folks who start companies. 

Today is your day.
You’ve got your degree!
You’ll start your career as an interviewee.
You’re ready to go.
You know all your stuff.
But maybe…

My Gaza: A Letter from a Little Girl in a Warzone

“Not the Gaza of the yore,Where riches were galore,But My Gaza where bombs roar”

Background Before you read the poem please take moment to read the next few lines…

Lighter Things

For Claire and other good women who can’t hold their whiskey.

Claire can’t get stoned,
tolerate cigarette smoke,
show up tomorrow in today’s clothes
and last night’s mascara.
She is in sync with the sun—
prefers to let its first…

Calling All Poets: Come Home to Medium

Calling Poets to Post in Medium and Make it More Beautiful

Way back in January Stephanie Newman wrote why Medium is not a very friendly place for poetry:

People Need to Buck Up and Start Dyin’

The title of this poem was written somewhat sarcastically in a dialogue of letters. Overpopulation was being discussed. 

Rolling to the Center

Rolling
to the center

a massive planet
collapses
inward

Outer space is inhuman