my eyes lock with my eyes two black holes, duplicated suspended in space and time.   i blink — and the self-portrait shifts late sun...

i.   we were probably eight when you waved back    as i looked up from my new apartment balcony.      we looked for shells and jumped...

I bowed to the ground, picked up nine four-leaf clovers - six five-leaf clovers too. Their petals sliced by mower blades speckled by...

and i love him even more now my half-mad boy in his skeleton best   black and red, canary and camo he pulls that heart out of his chest...

We are on a train from Tokyo to Kurama Onsen  near Kyoto. You write on the back of purple and gold  origami paper, scenery passes us by...

She misses the light that hid its existence cream and pale under the watchful eye of the waning moon that used to dance in spirals and...

Shut away from the magic of music, she can no longer hear the rising hymns she sang with Dean and a guitar, behind a pulpit of judgement....

He doesn’t rotate the produce. After hauling the crates from the loading dock, he unloads new spuds onto last week’s potatoes. Unripe...

Three generations of the women in my family             sit on the spacious front porch, pouring over                         souvenirs...

I’ ve kissed at least one dead girl that I know of. I look back and realize she was maybe only barely alive when we kissed. Tawny girl,...

I converse with nobody all the time, a liminal voice singing. But I write to complete discourse between lines. I owe them that— for...

I find us, always rolling down that grassy hill at grandma’s. Knees stained green, itchy as hell. Blotchy, burnt faces echoing hues of...