Our Lady of the Cafeteria
Praise her hairnet, her steam-smudged
eyeliner, bronzed highlights. Praise her
tongs that hold up breaded fish as wrinkle-
nosed kids ask what is...
The Gorgon Comes For Her Own
Ugliness is so unpredictable.
There are three ways to be beautiful
and thousands to be monstrous.
You should see it was never...
Laundry
When she received her first laundry machine,
a wonder of torqued water & whiplashed soap,
she cried. I thought I was dreaming, she said. I mean,
my...
