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I’m carving out an effigy of Forgetfulness grasping mangled ledgers of memory. Look how it shuffles screens, kinks files: larceny of channeled retention from unmuscled thresholds and honed lingo. Its intrusions inhabit the...

After Dad’d spur, I was sure to bray: seasonal’d torture, splintered holidays, angered, soured, wound, baked—geothermal’d! Pending over my shoulder, poised, contained, his roused snout. Eruption’s not seeming a sensible...

I want to write about Viktor Ullmann, but don’t know how without inventing new language. No words in the dictionary are sufficient to describe or portray the unspeakable and monstrous moment when he was twenty-one and...

Have you nothing to say? I don’t believe the dangling cigarette interferes with thought or speech. For the last two hours you’ve looked at every item in the tool department of Lowe’s, and I have followed behind...

I drift into the bar as if lost, and in some ways I am. It’s been four years since I’ve been here. Renovations have made it a less seedy place to down a Jack and Coke. There are now colored globes at intermittent...

I write often to you. Looking at my handwriting, I admit my letters look like the meager scratches I made in the third grade, and that year seems closer than the distance between us. I write that I miss your homemade gorditas....

My hands held her face as she died, and her name changed becoming as unknowable as the language used to give it life. I remember her brown hair sprinkled with grey. It seemed to sag when she left me. I don’t know how God chose...

As my great-grandmother lay dying, the family knowing she wouldn’t last the night, stood around her bed and sang Polish hymns. My father placed me on her chest. At three I was lean and hard. She was soft without hope for...

This scrubland, a scattering of purple hedge nettle. The path between the lagoon’s flat surface and where cows lull and breed weaves my soul into distant landlocked dunes. Tall grasses (and your hair) wave in an ocean’s breath,...