Goodbye was like later, loser, don’t let college kill you, and then college killed you. Or the alcohol did. Or the car ride, wasted—I...

The summer Terra got pregnant with Maisy was the hottest since they’d started keeping track. She’d fallen asleep as the heat of the day...

Your bare, my bones— we’ll never break even. You pronounce repressed like capital offense. You stomp and slam and seethe, take a...

Moments from the past are precious specimens. Yet, like mold they eventually fester and spoil swollen mounds of dough prepared to rise...

In the game I played an error— merely a slide—an amusement—in an evening’s topography. But you grew up elsewhere—in a country where...

Parental guidance was redefined in our household. FAMILY was just me, my sister Lynn and our father Punch. Yes, Punch, like the puppet...

today | even though i have not cried | i feel wrung out | like a dirty dishrag | used and tossed aside | and though i...

A firefighter’s promise is something I think about almost every day When the man I love goes off on a call, most certainly into harm’s...

When I see a hundred birds I wonder what they say It looks like they all trust The one up front to lead the way I put trust in little...

White crested banners of Poseidon, Drape the nerves, Of peat moss sand, Lick the source, Of all stature, Our pebbled feet could afford,...

Nocturnal nebulas enclose — do they enclose? — on a queen-sized bed to breathe life into only one of the bodies there. The other remains...

It was temporary. That’s what she told herself, leaning her head against the window of the plane. The tarmac below gave off little...