When mast cell activation causes madness, Allergic to Sanity pulls skeletons out of the closet to examine dislocations of reality.

Allergic to Sanity

"Cylinder slides in sausage fingers;

I wait on you every meal.

From lead to feather I lessen my load—

There is not a lump I will conceal."

Salt Shaker

When we were made from clay,
Our lax bodies shrines to something greater,
Some ancestors' tissues held velvety:
Smooth, soft, like wet earth and silk.

The B’K Vol. 15, Issue 3

When We Were Made

"Instead I asked if ever you had tracked / How many twinkling stars litter the sky / While knowing dawn will come before the fact"

p. 20

constellation tattoo

"When we met in the woods, / You did not shake my hand."

p. 19

green thumb

"I borrowed your love like a library book..."

p.8

I Said I Was An Open Book

"speed walking like ur being followed. maybe u are. blackberry vines scrape numb ankles. u know they’re invasive but u know ur the invader in this land."

pitterpatter

"Compel me to confess anything authentic— / Tell me I can crawl through your aorta, / We are two parallel lines."

I love you / ___

my Eyes and Ears

"An octopus has three hearts pumping blue blood through its body all the time: two in sync and the third a beat off."

Octopus Lover

"I remind myself I will find love / In library books and hope / In advocate assemblies and a cure / In my best friend's arms."

Rainbow Zebra Crutches and Peach Fuzz

Articles published for magazines and newspapers

Carter Hemion

Books

Selected work