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Mother’s face caves like a mountain of flour under poured milk. I will watch her face fall and fall ’til it’s a puddle at the top of her neck. “No one will want the furniture,” she says; “No one ever wants old furniture.”...

The child’s dress caught by a rush of wind, billowing. Spinnaker of blown cotton. Bright summer cloth against blue surrounding sky. The fisherman’s line cast, trawling the bay, his boat riding the faint waves’ troughs. Slight...

The fat summer moon drifts atop the trees, pale-tipped and reverent. They are right to glimmer in amazement. Where the woods stand silent. Where in awe. Where hallowed. I wonder if the night orb light is like prayer. All this...

I never saw her naked before. Small, bird-bodied, brittle-boned. So like a breath of feathers that is a wren. She is easy to gather up. Guide into steaming water. Her bath, a ritual, a meditation. A moment to escape the days’...

A sudden reversal of the day’s next hour seems to confound others. Not me. I know that time does not need to move forward. We are impoverished if we believe the hours cannot retreat, for the sun can, indeed, grow still in the...

I bend toward the remnants of a wedding caught by morning tides: plastic glass inscribed Melanie & Jake, broken disposable fork, silver shred of Mylar balloon. I used to comb for winkle shells, the nacre of mussel and...

Paper mill at the edge of town known mostly for its stench, hires and lays off more workers than anywhere in the county. Many forests down. Thousands more acres of owls to go. There are more meth addicts doing shift work here...

How have stranger and fear come to mean the same thing? Last Monday morning I walked north toward glass beach, shoreline where middens have been pummeled into jewels. Red the rarest, indigo most prized. There is a bulkhead close...

I want to write a feverish I love you song Serenade you watch your agate blue eyes flicker open find myself inside of them your astonishing smile charms me lays warm on me I want to write a fierce I love you song a raw opening...

Riding in the limo that day we questioned why it ended that way He was the next rising star in a box in the next car Lost touch over the years occasionally we’d grab a beer Always claimed all was fine just found out he...