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…
Alleys and paths twist Labyrinthine Here An artery of cherry blossoms There Acrobats and applause A pulse Under the clamor of vendors promising fresh elixirs free-flowing life renewed. A hound…
I can still hear them, the way they have asked for so much more than love, for my absolute humiliation. They have demanded this like jackals, like foxes whose screams…
In my next life the oblation of birth will name all unnamed selves anew. Born into rabbit form; a heart- attack that could not kill, skews stone in the grip…
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