“The water will always fall, and will not fall, And the tipped bell make no sound. The grass will always be growing for hay Deep on the ground.” –“Medusa,” Louise…
Give me a little more wine and I’ll tell you. No, more than that. What, you think I won’t take advantage Of a royal wedding? Alright, fine: For weeks after…
Even ripening marble was too slow to catch more than the half of her: hair thick braids of wheat, wide eyes focused on distant oats whose stalks her hands had…
Slowly this coral braces for the back and forth by changing colors beginning with moonlight—in time the leaves become tea, gutted the way an old woman with beads weighs your…
1. BLACK Black as the sun’s shadow, the mare’s legs, feathery fetlocks plunge into the grass stained with moony tears. I’ve seen her in my dreams, as a horse-headed queen…
A purple dinner napkin unfurls on the little girl’s lap, like a ship’s sail. Forks and knives clink, glint silver as the silverfish that slip along between bathroom tiles. The…
He held the train tracks close to his chest On days so slow he thought they’d thaw And that the center would drop out the bottom Of the planet’s soft,…
People excluded from the party, stand outside in the rain. Tears mix with precipitation, create salt puddles beneath their eyes. A band plays jazz so smooth it’s creamy peanut butter.…
Which medications are you currently taking? a pinch of my husband’s envy potent as cyanide 2 bricks of postpartum crushed 1 quart saltwater applied with eyedropper wellbutrin stimulant …
I was in the garden planting new babies kissing the many wet foreheads and testing soil when my husband wandered off he called us once while I slept inside the…
