Looking to spend a few minutes not sad, I traveled to South Florida with my husband Steve, my sister Colleen, and her husband John. One morning, early in the trip, I stood at the counter in the …
I’ve known abandonment because I’ve known and loved the image. The image abandons, abandons by its nature, like nature abandons. If I say, the body is a stone, I have abandoned the body. If I …
After Charles Wright I can’t describe the photograph with the clarity of the photograph. That is the anxiety of the image. I can’t describe the groan in my head without imbuing it with a sense …
My friend Claire said that her daddy once told her that if you took all of the lies humans had told since the beginning of time and set them up in the sky, the sky would become the lies because …
He’d drive us out into the desert and we’d hike through that dirt and brush, rocks wrapped by lichen, until he’d say, This is good. Then we’d shoot coyotes. Shoot them all day. Smoke her, …
When I sat down, we shot the shit about this and that for a minute, but I knew there was something on Pablo’s mind. So, after he started his second drink while going on about how students always …
The people now inhabit the crowns. There
is, in fact, little space up there, but no one
turns off your water or comes by with the leaf
blower or raises your rent out of the blue.
Up …
A hair fell from her head. It fell and fell
and I followed it with my gaze. It landed
in one of the trays that sat on a scale.
It threw the scale out of balance. The scale
tilted. It …
A frog jumped out of the broom closet; the wife was already screaming; and the husband burst into the kitchen, squeezed the trigger of his face. In the time it took the morning light to stream …
As in some demented romantic comedy, my wife and I divided the apartment in half. She took the living room and I took the bedroom. Bivouacked and bleeding, we waited for the lawyer to finish the …
A strong wind breaks a tree branch by the roadside.
The branch trips up an electric bike.
Its food delivery box tumbles to the ground.
A rental bike bumps against it, tips over.
The two riders fall …
I don’t want to go to the mosque
only women may walk
around in gold and silk
ustad says
when he caresses my ears
my Arabic teacher
calls me his gazelle
ART
Jakayla Monay, The Unknown Somebody ft. Robert Patrick Taylor V, photography.
Jakayla Monay, ii. What God Sees ft. Brandon Goss, photography.
Jakayla Monay, i. What God Sees (Radiant Waters) ft. Tyson Londojn, photography.
Jakayla Monay, Country Bloom ft. Saida Carter, photography.
Jakayla Monay, Breakfast at Denny's ft. Myles Houston and Aubrey Houston, photography.
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