Words

Who knew the pecans float to the top ofthe pie? Who knew —When a knife comesclean it is done? While...

His yellow talons clutch a gnarled branchnot ten yards away. His regal head turns to take me in. When he turns back to look...

had it been different had it been otherwise i might not have conceived such an elaborate disguise as we walked, that night along the river that cries for...

Mystic morning, snow-laced, leafless branchesof treed sentinels, faint outlines. Merge into the fog, awaiting the Sun’s return,awake,...

How’s everything at school? Good...why? Another mother passed along a whisper: there’s this boy, he might have a gun. Should I tell you, or leave...

In reverie I drum with open handsall over my naked chest legs stomach,beating into this life a rhythm,percussing the guts beneath my...

When we arrived in this unknown placewe knit together in a waythat made me want to shoutthis, this is my family.How could...

Have you ever seen a bird hover just over the shallow of a lakeBalancing on the wind that whips my baby hairs...

i am sho my armz will fall wit fat & my chin will double wit a smile & my hair will turn gold befoe it...

4 wallsSurrounded and safe like a fly in a cupConfused and lost beyond wordsA hideous reminder of what we could be.Had we...

some days — if by days you mean libraries (i’m my own library) —i file myself under fiction;some days, anthologies  during regular...

They were the last tomatoes of the season, harvested from the garden like the precious gems they were. The tomatoes were heirlooms....