The collective sigh of relief is an insult, as if the least favorite relative is dead at last and, finally, the china goes where it...

Rust is iron oxide forming on iron-based metal exposed to the elements when its protective coating wears off. A sign of aging and...

I invited my mother to dinner With some of my closest friends. She passed the bread To my friend from the summer After high school. The...

Twenty TVs echo cacophonously, each tuned to the same station, half lagging two seconds behind. Smells of medicine and piss coat the...

The announcement came mid-march in a one-room apartment in Ohio a hellfire warning from a golden trombone with an elongated saqueboute–...

Under hospital lights that flicker a morse “SOS,” I drop my hummingbird feather ring, still beating, into a plastic bag labeled PSYC. I...

These parrots will be my inheritance: these clipped-wing, leash-trained useless things all that’s left at the end. All the money spent....

Tumbleweeds, picked up wind grasses quick and unreachable. Like that girl, my dad’s girlfriend’s daughter. How she was 11 years to my 8....

On the kitchen stove, bacon fat split-splats into pieces; Springtime poppies cut in half to desert heat. Perhaps I will blossom too, let...

We went there a lot, Michael and me. The silver-plated tongue they called the slide. Our fears rose and fell with each pump of our legs....

He went to sleep earlier tonight than usual. The sinking of the mattress struck me as strange, as though the bed compressed more than it...

Yesterday's worn out words expect to be resuscitated. Stale habits, continue, a pattern holds. Today, rousing strength to drive change....