On the day the girl’s heart broke she lay still on her bed. She arranged her hair behind her like a fan on the pillow, the way she’d done since…
“The present data suggest that, despite their severe growth failure [extreme short stature], social integration and functioning may be satisfactory in ring chromosome 15 patients.” …
1. She wears her nose high, oil-slicked hair curling around a nest of bones. She’s built a throne out of all the books you’ll ever want to read, and you…
and poison sneaks out of frog skin, and Batman sneaks out of Bruce Wayne. Alleys sneak out of boulevards, and pennies sneak out of pockets. A baby sneaks out of…
you have to be a struck stillglowing lightning rod. hooves too wild to be shod. dawn your crown. dusk your purple husk. to the marrow a songsparrow. formed by thunderstorms.…
My words are more toad than diamond. I can feel them, sticky toed against my vocal cords their smooth wet bellies dragging against my tongue I can kiss all day…
You begin with Be, end with a glorious hiss: Beatrice. Steel teeth. Fire biter. Ms. Moxie. Not Dante’s Beatrice. Not an enskied, enshrined thing, a silent, saintly ladylove bright-beaconing from…
It’s night now, and a wrist Turns over in the magnificent leaves. Nothing but shadows, incalculable fortunes Trailing along the arteries like slim beaks, Like rivers black as comets. In…
am I the girl | cursed to live inside the skeleton of a calf or the calf cursed to die to be cut apart | & entered I thought if…
My mother taught me a few of her magic tricks in the kitchen: How to crush a clove of garlic with the heel of your hand and watch the skin…
