I. My skeleton is no set of bones but a hunger I’ve buried. A yearning for a god with the mind of the moon, a radiant string of revolutions. I…
Please list your assets and/or gross family income: All the trees of the forest, all the moss of river stones, every mushroom, toadstool, lichen, all lesser fairies, every moth, cobweb,…
After a teen runs into me. After, without words, the Gardening attendant scoops up shards of adobe blown aisle-wide. After she smiles in a double-shift way and offers the pot…
We say this, she’s a monster, meaning his wife, girlfriend, or the bride-to-be, he’s a monster, meaning a man good in bed or a puppy that chews our leather sandals to…
When they crammed me into clothes, dropped me at the school, unceremoniously, with all the other little beasts. I knew the jig was up. I knew this wasn’t going to…
Get up! Get up! She’s gone! —Glinda the Good Witch, The Wizard of Oz Thinking sunlight or scrub would erase the cologne from scarves and coats I gathered, this piled…
There is a paper little house with a paper little man. He has a wife and when they make love, there is the scritch scratch of paper rubbing against one…
The woodcutter is at a loss. Gretel, not quite fifteen, is cavorting with lycanthropic girls, stumbling home in the dim hours of morning, reeking of urine and musk, tufts of…
For the first five years I wouldn’t plant poppies, afraid of what witch might murmur over the crystal ball of my life, afraid of sleeping forever waiting for snow. But…
The two children loved each other so much that they always held hands whenever they went out, and when Snow White said, “Let us never leave each other,” Rose Red…
