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Momma, is you what they say you is, a desert with no door? (how time moves in the out-zone)
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James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger (Indolent Books, 2018) All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) and Motel Prayers (Alien Buddha, 2022) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their most recent work can be found in Corporeal lit mag, Wrongdoing mag, Rust + Moth, Sugar House Review, and Thrush Poetry Journal.