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Peel the gauze. If “open” is a better word than peel, let us wait for the sparkle, likely reflecting from solaced tears. The sense of Sight had curled up in the temples, snug, waiting to be freed another way. There must be...

You, with the halo, mind your rings for they once lived in trees. Before they were christened into a baby pen, chiseled from the inside of an oak. Are the stars below, above or around? Nearness clarifies the turquoise, the navy,...

Praise the evening for it has severed ties with shadows, heaping rice kept for a wedding we had anticipated and missed. The morning will bend its knees; thus say goodbye to the emptying of night, and its continuum. There, I pick...

There was a memorial in the park today. The people gathered near the pavilion, their heads bowed, the trees above lowered their branches, even the sun looked down and spread its mottled light through the maples, as the squirrels...

It’s not the sharp pain of a snapped-back garter belt or the yank of a door slam pulling out a tooth. It’s a bandage slowly peeled, lifting off a scab. She stokes the fire he lit in the brick fireplace, then from her bed watches...