Bitch Session

by Heidi Lynn Staples

Originally published on March 1, 2006

I was sitting in the livingroom chatting with you, in the firelight, Reading, on the couch, on a rant, chatting, but it was you In the living-room, chatting in the firelight and ranting, at it, O, at no one in particular, at no one — O, It was no one in particular in the livingroom [...]

In My Dream You Were Church Regulated

by Heidi Lynn Staples

Originally published on March 1, 2006

in my dream you were church regulated, and I could only talk to you from another room, the wallpaper was generally heterosexual, and the lampshades entailed certain rights. I couldn’t follow you then when you were outside just beyond the door, with your back to the house where the couple establishes their own household; and [...]