I or maybe we are still shopping to get this all into the cupboards—like a bone for that good dog we never had then— or into the oven—like a house…
The hours between his clean shaven kiss and his heavy boot at the door show. A blue stain of weariness, beneath his eyes, across his rough chin. He holds his…
Papa holds a piece of sky, the constellation Andromeda whose panicked father learned the only way to save his kingdom was to sacrifice his daughter, who he then stripped and…
The Remembering of Things :: Ghosts can’t follow you across the sea— that’s why you left, and now you can’t go back, no longer from the country left behind. Homeland…
beware the fairy at the well she changes her shape wrinkled hag with swollen knuckles and stooped shoulders fair maid with shining eyes and soft hands no matter the gift…
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.…
Gingerbread House Lit Mag 