Granddaughter
You’re a tarot card not yet dealt,tea leaves infusing in the womb,an impression brewing, a whiff of honeyed milk,a dream. Aren’t dreams like wombs?Dark...
Body
dog-eared, tracks
like spinal cords after the rains come
without any stillness, shards
of the downed Juniper like baby teeth
half-buried. Love
is not a living creature. Husk
of the...
Scientists Confirm Ocean Is Really Scary at Night
Humpbacks can look like temporary islands, gray on grayin this weather, gliding along the waves. So sleekyou...
Abecedarian: Whatever Grows
Aunt B. lives, after her death, in our wedding photos:bespectacled, cigarette hanging from her lips, beercup in one hand, phone in the...
Girl, Mapped in Florida
Fort Myers
I skirt hid skinned
knees on Sunday morning
at my other grandmother’s bingo-hall-turned-Pentecostal-church. Little
girls were never meant to be so dirty,
sandpaper mouthed...
Ricocheted Into Our Better Selves
From the field a moose leads by example—crossing the road, returning, pacing, waitingfor her slick-born calf, all long-legged maybe.Cars pile...
