Poetry

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist

                  A fist full of angry thistle that you’ve pulled by a ditch along blacktop                    cutting and carving through cornfields in…

6 years ago

Second

[wc_row][wc_column size="two-third" position="first"] You are my second husband. We parse this sentence. A second is short, a sixtieth of a…

6 years ago

A Few More Thoughts on Tubers

                  Which sounds, I admit, like tumors and must, on some long scroll                   of words, have shared a common root, some…

6 years ago

Green Hand

The hand was hungry, could eat none of small creek animals, could not catch the slippery catfish. The fiddler crabs…

6 years ago

My Father the Shark

When you draw the Atlantic over your red shoulders                 like a comforter and submerge ten yards away, I don’t know…

6 years ago

Birthdays

Without a calendar, I will know I’m 86 when stickiness of my left lung matches density of cicada air. My…

6 years ago

When Winter

December settles like skin over the trees’ skeleton: bones bowed under a broken sky: my mother is the body of…

6 years ago

you who never came

you were not the only child i didn’t have but the only one i named not Near Miss or Scare…

6 years ago

The Secret History of Versification

An owl with a broken beak, and a bone-mourned silence. It would have been a mistake to know the names…

6 years ago

burial: taftótita

identity, sameness from taútós, he, she, that + -ótita, -ity, -ness                                                                                                                                                 the mortician asked if we wanted                                                                                                                                                 to make sure…

6 years ago

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