As an Artist, I’m on an Alphabet Soup Diet, and I Am Starving

As an artist, I’m on an alphabet soup diet, and I am starving. I chew and swallow, but the letters get stuck on the way down, caught in a tangle of run on sentences that wraps tighter witheach question mark I dot. The lifting of a spoon to my cracked lips animates my taste buds,…

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  • As an Artist, I’m on an Alphabet Soup Diet, and I Am Starving

    As an artist, I’m on an alphabet soup diet, and I am starving. I chew and swallow, but the letters get stuck on the way down, caught in a tangle of run on sentences that wraps tighter witheach question mark I dot. The lifting of a spoon to my cracked lips animates my taste buds, […]

  • Next Time I’ll Just Sip the Juice or Eat It Peel and All

    I nodded rhythmically as she spoke, pulling my facial expression up and down accordingly, mirroring hers. I widened my eyes as she whispered in my ear the drama concerning a best friend; she must’ve forgotten she had already told me about it. I picked an orange out of a bowl next to me, so I’d […]

  • Haunted By My Phantom Limbs

    When we were children, my friend said that she plucks the legs off of spiders and watches them try to dance. She said it casually, as if expecting to be met with like-mindedness. Even now when I see a spider, I imagine it with a lack of legs, too small to even bleed, bouncing around […]