Poetry

Train Wreck You say the end will be a jumble of bones, a skeleton scrambled and left for the dogs. I say the whole damn cemetery can be upheaved...

Dinosaur Gardens Every family’s story is the same in departure. We visited every summer, a pilgrimage to primordial creatures fashioned from lumber, concrete, and obsession....

Fruit Fish did you knowif you remove the bones& make a hollow inside the bodyfill it with ripe colors: kiwi, mango, lemonit will become something...

Harpoon Moonlight drapes the garden with a lullabycold as a harpoon. It knows its target,the heart. Later, the helpless, useful thingwill dive and flail, ribcage...

Tree for the Forest  Century Tree, St. Louis, MO nested concentric,one to another, accumulated. History isboth the quick injury that broke a young limb and...

Mundane Scar Papi reclines on the couch a dark shadow in the dim lighting of the family room.  His finger probes the shiny skin stretched like burnt umber smeared along his sharp...

These Were Our Best Years We slept better after we invented violence, some of us resumed the habit of muffling cries with newly plumped pillows. We sang the...

M-A-T-H She said she’d come back if she could, to tell me. To say what it was like, but she didn’t.Snow blows off the roof...

Verdict HENCEFORTH the peerless jury finds gravity null, unconstitutional—at last hereby nothing binds or keeps us from disanchoring. Sweet revelation! Oh Hurry, good fearless citizens: Annotate the textbooks! Dismantle the roofs and parapets, already we’re unstapling our bones are ruderal dispersing heavenward like...

On Cessation A crow clinging to a reed stabsat little fish. The lake holdsits setting sun a moment longerthan the horizon. Mosquitoes prickwhat bleeds. A...