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2026

Classic Wedge

July 27, 2026
Iceberg lettuce, red onion, cherry tomato, blue cheese dressing, bacon crumbles. Colored outside the lines a little by adding pickled jalapeños.

Neapolitan Pizza and a Spinach Calzone

July 26, 2026

2025

Maddy and I planted a Peach Tree

July 5, 2025
The variety is “Hale Haven,” and according our still-benevolent robot overlords: Developed at Michigan State University's South Haven Experimental…

2021

How to Fall in Love with a Friend

September 14, 2021
Can I touch your hair? / She asks me / A strange question indeed / We’re standing next to one another / At Ocean Beach / Atop the O'Shaughnessy…

Brooklyn, c. 1985

August 30, 2021
They don’t tell you in San Francisco / That East Coast nights don’t cool down in the summer / Not in Augusta / But not in Brooklyn either / I…

2019

STD Testing

November 30, 2019
So we kinda had the talk / Me and my newish girlfriend / We’d been friends for years / But only lovers for a few months / It felt silly / We were…

Because our Relationship was Perfect

February 15, 2019
She told me it was over / Not even twelve hours ago / So I’m cleaning my apartment / Like a man on a mission / Because maybe it makes me feel better…