Shut away from the magic of music, she can no longer hear the rising hymns she sang with Dean and a guitar, behind a pulpit of judgement....

He doesn’t rotate the produce. After hauling the crates from the loading dock, he unloads new spuds onto last week’s potatoes. Unripe...

Three generations of the women in my family             sit on the spacious front porch, pouring over                         souvenirs...

I’ ve kissed at least one dead girl that I know of. I look back and realize she was maybe only barely alive when we kissed. Tawny girl,...

I find us, always rolling down that grassy hill at grandma’s. Knees stained green, itchy as hell. Blotchy, burnt faces echoing hues of...

for my cousin Nadia.   Peeled back as a baby to reveal her delicate insides – heart laid bare. Someone wished upon her like a flower and...

South of close relatives, north of the minor arcana of pre-deceased coworkers, neighbors, et cetera, subset of the mammoth    ship of...

The biggest betrayal I ever met I handled like an infant at the supermarket wailing down aisles, bawling tears of denial tearing down...

the windows of the train are cloudy: scratches and water stains blur the surface—it’s just like watching an old television, except there...

I remember buying basil with my mother. At the counter I swam in time too small for weekday nets to catch— where it’s wrists wearing...

When she taught me to swim, she said, only breathe if you absolutely have to — as if oxygen was not needed to live. I often feel like a...

The hue of her wooden frame turned cerulean after her husband left.  Blue now covers the heart’s jagged rock limbs.  She becomes a skiff...