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I bring a boxful from another planet, wash them under cold water in a white sink, wipe the skin with care, cut lengthwise with a paring knife, keep peel intact. If my mother were here, she would grab the fleshy pit and devour...

Climbing on the nearest branch the bittersweet clings, berries open wide, brittle petals fall. Sand may count out days, clouds blow in the wind, shadows disappear. Come now, stay now, let the petals...

Say what you will of me I prophesy a doom that is avoidable if only… Don’t believe me, read the Bible: God let two of every creature man and beast survive the Flood. When Zeus flooded Earth he, too, left one couple— but no...

(Laura Annie West) Social Services invade my home, knock on my wooden door, hurry across the dirt floor. I see the looks they share, the house, unclean, clothes full of grime, children’s faces display exhaustion of another day...

Tends to explain while complaining how insubstantial molehills used to be when mountains should have been enough. Passes over the Shh! and Hush! Forgets the impact of Shut up! Then maunders on and on about love that fades, Fates...

Lies in a state of enervation, lies like a cadaver that can tell no lies, like a mummy, like a corpse reposed in savasana. After death can be like that. Words chipped away like fossils, gems held up to the light of day....

after Pierre Auguste Renoir’s Seascape The first wave whirs around in one long enormous pipe; greens, blues, and pearly whites froth, thick with liquidity. The second wave forms in a ragged rumple. More shift and shove. On the...

In the land where trees still stand branch to branch and root to root, where green sunlight trickles down like dew, to bless the flowers underfoot, I will stand still. See how the trillium blooms, starlike, fanning through the...

Oh, the effort not to tell you, my words snared in deadwood every time I write. I speak surrounded by those who can’t hear for multiple reasons, each with an ear on his own inverted glass held to a wall. I spy mine enemies...