You open your mouth, and some honeybees fly out. I’m anxious when they buzz, with their small, turbulent wings. My insanity stems from...

Call the witness to the stand; the jury wants to know how you hold peaches like a heartbeat, how it always tastes better when it’s been...

The stuffy sweet smell of vanilla, cinnamon, and fermenting milk greets us two blocks ahead of Dave’s Ice Cream Shoppe. I peel back the...

Wherever Abigail went, I followed. When I was four and toddling along the sunbaked patio of my family’s restaurant, Abigail blocked the...

Now I remembered this drive well. I remembered how being in the car up and over the mountains and down the windy road made me nauseous....

There’s a fire in my heart & it’s burning from the inside out. It’s like that Mary-Jane you ignite to forget the day— it chars your...

A safety net is not always safe, Falling back on someone is still a fall, A bruise can beat and batter you, Run you thin until you are...

Mice no longer run in a panic looking over their furry shoulders, there is no need, the cats have died and no replacement has been made....

My mother chopped off a snake’s head in the garage, a shovel her guillotine and with force a meaty slice sever and clang. She wiped her...

I was the girl of the altar call, knees bent and tears streaming, god’s chosen for memorizing Bible verses faster than the boys; the girl...

Last night, I spent hours, creating a poem. The diction, depicted a painting, of a child, being burned. By villagers who felt that the...