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!...
On Election Night, I Reach for My Partner’s Hand
in bed. Try to sleepby concentrating
on the pulsethat shudders
through the thick, bluerivers along his arms. I...
Side Quests
You travel alone across this emaciated America, this atom-scorched landscape where the cattle are radiation-burned, where the deer wander with both heads alert...
