Thing To her, the neighbor’s flowering bougainvillea is a reminder of the fondling she suffered at the hands of a different neighbor...

Acquiesce Crystalline spider, size of a seed, thumbs clenched edges of the impenetrable peony bud, balled until it’s ready, ...

Tomato picking Grape tomatoes, these swollen berries like summer ornaments, dangle from tethered vine. Their ripeness judged by how...

Druridge Bay bell notes shimmer hang in the air ring and rhyme and shower shore-wards they ripple out whipped egg-white foam then...

Pondlife after Blur Indolence is an aspiration for the whale watcher for what is known to the professionals as… pondlife… And early...

When Pigs Can Fly one day when pigs can fly we’ll be at peace with males ancients who deny we are equal to them assume we...

A SLAVE OF HIS HABIT. His eyes red like that of a hungry lion With sweat pouring out of every hole in his body Ants moving over his body...

Tea and Cake When my knees scrape rock bottom Death lifts up her manhole cover and invites me in for a warm brew She tells me my body can...

Wasted Bone-deep aches anchor him to his sour bed. Outside, rainfall makes laundry impractical to contemplate. Once, he recalls, vigour...

Broken Boiler Her head hurt from the perfumed candles. Fresh cut roses crept synthetically up her nostrils to sit just behind her eyes....