Feeling Good
Maybe they get off that way, although the posture can’tresult in a baby panda: Mei Xiang flat as half-melted snowduring this one fertile...
Snow Drifts Through the Living Room
…you who must leave everythingthat you cannot controlIt begins with your familybut soon it comes round to your soul…Leonard...
Imaginary Friends
With some reservation, you can swear off the clutch of voices, but remember
to look both ways before crossing each soirée of memory—
like the...
Mother’s Hands
Sometimes
I would pinch the top of her hand
and then mine
quickly, watch her skin drift
back to place while mine
snapped.
I’d poke and press the purple
vein...
Smoke
In first grade the sisters told us
of Cain and Abel heaping their fires,
hoping the smoke would make God
smile. Abel’s rose, but Cain’s
hugged the ground...
Florence Nightingale: The Lady With A Lamp
Isn’t it strange that angels are female, crowned regal by halos of gold,
swinging lamps to peel the darkness...
Inferno Tulips
To survive a New Brunswick apartment
during an upstairs summer
without air conditioning
without one’s own television or music
the breeze used up
by the families
I heard yelling
and...
