It wasn’t what we went looking for. We went for flint axe heads. The farmer, before my parents, had found axe heads beside the crumbling...

I suppose, it is easy to forget shadows. How they move and feel. Their utter nothingness at the edge of vision. Tendrils ...

1. You are not the tangled Spider Plant your seventy-five-year-old foster mom (five worlds ago) made you water every day. So stop sending...

Wear something nice: a full length ball gown or a hat with an ornamental rose on the front. This will show that you have made an effort....

Dionysos at the Blue Moon, four rounds deep it’s in my nature, it is my nature black curls limp down a clammy neck and bleary burgundy...

.....who saw me as their stepmom" fire truck. helicopter. american girl doll. army men. shopping cart. all these things that were once...

2 Frost Haikus *for Chris La Tray 1. pink morning sunlight sparkling on the frosty grass crunch beneath my boots 2. frost dusting the...

Hot Cocoa Impact, Marshmallow Intentions He hates the taste of coffee so he orders something sweet. Steamed milk and two heaping powdered...

In the split womb of madness, bubbling black through every pore, I feel every inch of every mistake. With feathers for eyebrows sipping...

Forget this is number eighteen, circled red on the calendar. Forget you are sweaty, can’t be picky, sit down huffily, a storm of skin now...