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Aimed the wrong direction on snowy South Fitzhugh an S.U.V. bides its time. It’s the middle of the night. But for head and tail lights and a screen’s harsh glow – see the flutter of the driver’s thumbs – the vehicle would...

If not for love, we wouldn’t make mistakes, take no wrong turns, commit no crimes of omission, sing in perfect pitch and harmony. If not for love, we could see clearly and follow any path. Justice would prevail. But love ties us...

I tumbled open like a box of hidden treasure hauled up from the bottom of the sea after a storm. You gathered me up, collecting all the pieces in your strong slender hands. Close to ruin, unrecognizable, you dusted me off,...

Finally, You sitting across from me while I worry about the light — you can see every whisker, and every line of uncertainty but you smile anyway, and I love you just for that. You cut the kiwi slices perfectly. You know just...

You finish with the beginning: blanketed reincarnation between the forest of icy berries. Blushing horizon entices suspended allure, a fullness matched with the sharp comfort of frost on hot cheeks. You lust after the loudness...

I don’t know who told me, I only remember knowing a submarine was coming to the bay below my house. Julie and I swam out to the dock and watched from its boards as a little red tugboat churned by. And then! Like a painted tin...

My heart is a knot that you are tied up in— orchid in an ice cube, pierced butterfly wing. For you I must be what I am not: a little lance holding hair-trigger spring, the thing that separates rocket from bomb. If I am oyster,...

What should we be tonight? You’re a blackbird, I’m a queen I’m a handful of berries and you’re the hand kneading slick skin clusters until I’m just shy of bursting caviar blood that stains your palms for days. Lead me through...