BAKE SALE
‘is it done?’ the mother texts the shoplifter
who happens to be her daughter
smelling of pot roast
& filetto ai tre pepi
w/ buzzards circling overhead
u...
American Soldier Baby
My high school friend has changedher profile picture. Newborn son, swaddled
in husband’s Army jacket.Small toes protruding like mushrooms.
Caption: baby Brennan, reportingfor duty!...
Seduction
Do you know any place that serves Mexican hot chocolate? I ask the driver.
My girlfriends and I sit squished like marshmallows inside an Uber...
A Rotary Phone
It’s strange to buy machinerythat will last longer than you live,
discomfiting. Your mother
has a chairlift that takes her fromthe living room to...
Rhythm
I’m preparing my parents to move into an assisted-living apartment, and I uncover a shoebox of pediatric pacemakers in the bathtub.
There must be thirty...
