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When the blackbirds fly to north women watch from kitchen windows above their good-meal-cluttered sinks and know the sun on glossy feathers tells a story far past soap. They tuck long skirts above smooth boots, pin back their...

This afternoon, two young men carry furniture into the kitchen, so they can pry up living room carpet. They fold to their knees, both men slipping a tack remover beneath the rug. Lumps and wrinkles have buckled broadloom into a...

If somewhere in the violet depths of dusk a warbling vireo sings, reassess the blasphemy of this time and know you are not lost, though the race may well be. Settle next the echoes of the wood thrush. Let silence between notes...

(with respect to Gabriel García Márquez) Through the glass, in the cold March breeze, flaps a neighbor’s worn flag. Distance, like these bare branches— white pine against blue sky—marks this corona, this silver ring with dark...

After “Tip Toe Dancer” by Karen Marie Garrett A boy—small enough to sit on the box-like windowsill along the edge of wood lacquering the vacant second floor of Kaufman’s Hardware Store— stares across a valley of corn to the...

stand silent. Roches moutons from earth science class before her teacher got pregnant. Then teachers were demigods powerful with myth. She’s a teacher herself now and in love with a teacher who travels with her. Both know how to...

It lies in a deserted patch of field, in the bowels of Eastern Europe. The face is looking up at the sky, the cold eyes that can never rest. Lenin, who said he didn’t want statues built for him, who said you can’t make an omelet...

It grabs its cane and begins the shuffle down the hospital corridor, but still a gentleman it wishes the new heart well, the new heart acting a bit of an ingrate dancing wildly with the staff, oblivious to its elder. The old...

The sunlight overwhelms the vestiges of the snow light, yet even with the clarity it’s hard to tell if the man I see is walking the dog or the dog is walking the man, though both of them seem to have affection for each other, no...