Begin with a brackish union. Then breathe space into salt. Then peel away the shin. Or start with a page of steam, an origami moon,…
Begin with a brackish union. Then breathe space into salt. Then peel away the shin. Or start with a page of steam, an origami moon,…
Everyone wants relief. Forest Grove Psychiatric Hospital has a suicide prevention call center where I volunteer my time to alleviate, to relieve. I sit in…
Once, my mother cradled my head to her chest & told me how she spread loose change on the tracks that cut so close beside…
The French boy had hair the color of wet sand. Not beach sand, but desert sand. The six months I lived in Saudi Arabia, it…
The sandpiper stares at the pickled sky, whetted for tornadoes. Wind planes off the plants, atrophied in their pots, abreast to the thunderhead. I water,…
The only clues were what she left on her desk. A yellow legal pad. A photo of a small blond boy. A white chunky coffee…
Two cotton slips, the larger hung on a hanger, lace at the bodice, and the child’s, cross-stitched, draped over a chair. Washed so often they…
Bonnie walked up five concrete steps, and opened the glass storm door to our tiny kitchen in our little New Jersey house on a sunny…
after the sun goes down our imitation of the sun turns on and someone must measure the distance between these street lights—to assure ample road…
In the natural history museum paintings on the wall illustrate the massive wingspans of certain birds. The woman I am with is less than a…
I’m middle-aged now and batting away a number of ghosts. In short, I’m haunted by the same platoon of terrors that made my high school…
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