I carry a lifetime’s worth of nights in my throat.
Author Archives: lara
Love Song for My Devil
My worship of you ends in dismay
I want to kiss the moon
sometimes / the way I used to want a smoke
The Emperor’s New Bird
“ I love the notion of performed spontaneity, in that it gets at the fact that what seems natural, or improvisational, is still a product of decision making, and still leads to a consciously made thing—a mechanical nightingale rather than the real bird that happens to fly in the window.” Diane Seuss interview with Jesse Nathan …
Fragment — August 2023
for a moon/that spins slowly/and echoes our fugitive secrets