if you could go back to any moment in your life and relive it, change how it happened, change who you lost, what would it be? I can...

That's a Good Girl That’s a Good Girl He said: That’s a good girl. On your knees, head down, on the floor, take some more. For the...

I ran my thumb up the edge of last week’s grocery list then pulled, fresh slip at the ready: 1 My pliant trunk slung across the frame of...

You can say, “No, thank you.  Not right now.” You can say, “No, I don’t want to pose.” Or you can simply say, “No,” in a very loud voice....

I wish I’d broken up with you on the day you said on the phone that there must be something wrong with my body if I couldn’t insert a...

My Brother My brother lives in a box of cigars. Each day every day he lifts the lid to peek at the world and hopes the world won’t...

Same Old Devil You penetrated me with your manhood, breaking my world like shattered glass, heaving your hairy chest against me, scorning...

You are bound by nothing. Not by the jelly fished blood clots orbiting the toilet bowl, undulating and otherworldly. Not these badly...

Rememory Maybe I was 8 or maybe 9. My memory is fuzzy like the buzzing TV in my aunt's bedroom. Rememory shows my chest rising and...

Why is it so difficult to say the truth, So what if they don't believe me, Why can't I trust myself, when I am the one who experienced...

good morning, your honor. i wanted to thank you for being here this morning. although you’re here as an impartial party, i appreciate you...

An Interview with Robyn Mazur, Executive Director of Joyful Heart Foundation The Joyful Heart Foundation came to life after actor Mariska...

The Session “So, are you ready to tell me about it?” Actually, I wasn’t. I would prefer to never talk about it. But it had come up in our...

Dancers Workshop When I studied with the experimental dance pioneer Anna Halpirn, she was dancing with a colostomy bag. I was 20; she was...

Doubts There are nights when I stand under the shower head feeling the hot water expand my hair and wondering if you knew what you were...

Girls with Red Flowers One cradles a bowl of red flowers, her nipples the same deep rose as the blooms. Tahiti is hot— we women may all...

Leave All Behind There you stood staring into the mirror thinking you were alone, but you weren’t, I was standing before you, peering...

In Silent Shadows Increasing in intensity Nightmares and Screams because the Instigator will not Let up Enclosing and Never stopping with...

My Father's Eyes “That dress really brings out the color of your eyes,” the sales girl told me as I stepped out of the dressing room. It...

Reclaim This body knows brands where brutality breeds. A process plans to split my legs like mayo marinated on a sandwich. Futile...

Eyes I’ve looked into the eyes of evil, Dilated, black pupils, Erasing earth brown, As he shoved the pill, Into my mouth, And held me...

House of Shame A letter to my body: For years you’ve played protector Shielded me from a truth that our twelve-year-old brain couldn’t...

I Was Swallowed by a Beam of Light Some say you were a plane, a flare, a mirage. / At first barely visible in the sky /but then your...

Inside the Silence Laying naked in this bed on my back, I tilt my head, and I look down with so much pain in my face. This is the third...