James Diaz
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.
We are different people
And if you are sad
Different Drives, The Same Highway
You Can’t Explain It
Mother in the kitchen, throwing up a dark horizon
Momma, is you what they say you is, a desert with no door? (how time moves in the out-zone)
Every day is a good day in papa’s house (antler pie dreams and movie screens)
Losing You
don’t go, I sayinto the light no longer on at the end of the hallstay awhileherewith me and the moon hung so lowagainst the skytell me one more timewhere it is I come fromhow I got this heart-shaped mouthand inside me bones that are shakingthinking of storms rolling in like punches off of dark hills […]