Winner of the 2020 Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest. Edition of 100. Sold out.
Printed + assembled by Cold Cube Press in Seattle, WA. Cover design by Sam Moss.

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excerpt:

Once, I had a polka-dotted frame, but I never called it that. 

I called it my body.

I called it my skin.

Freckles jumped from my cheekbones, sprouting up and over my shoulders, in the summertime. I wished they looked like that all year. In the colder, busier months they would fade into just another blank page.

The summer, though, took maintenance. I went to the pool every day I could, rode my bike (towel around my neck) through town, down the big hill, around the grain elevator, across and underneath the highway, on the paved bike path to the park.

I got in line—

and waited for the door to open.