Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary femme of color whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, is forthcoming with Thirty West Publishing in May 2022; you can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.
The first New Year’s I spent alone, I doused everything I ate [on wedding-dinner plates] in grass-fed cultured butter: filet,langoustines, asparagus. Decadence honors our absence, memorialize another night amidthis limbo of emancipation: in three weeks I will be free. [Waiting for the date is like having blood drawnafter doctor’s orders to see if the disease was contracted or in your… Read more →
late Spring, 2020 So this is how it happens. Two days in, I tell my girlfriend that I want a pool so I could scream underwater. I’m afraid the bathtub’s reverberations would worry the dogs, and in-ground concrete can absorb more than cannonballs, muffled calls of “Marco,” summer thunder. I can already taste chlorine— can puff-cheeks, emit an upward dribbleof… Read more →