Hey, operator. You having a good night?

I wish I was a flower. I wish people gave me meaning, and gave me to loved ones. I wish I was treasured. Yet, I am a person. I am a human.

With a grand total of two girlfriends under my belt, I fully embraced my foremother Sappho. Quietly, and out of my parents’ sight, I had become a baby dyke. The silent e turns the vowel long: dīk.

So much in this house is blue. I never liked the color
but have married someone who speaks sky and carried
an ocean inside her once, and wishes to carry another
owing to her thirst to nurture.

At one time or another, everyone believed the following: that black and white movies and television shows were black and white not because of the film but because the entire world—in the twentieth century—was actually black and white.

Memories, like the ocean, surge and ebb. Miami was a small, sleepy town in the 50’s. Ike was President.