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

She didn’t tell me when it could’ve mattered. She didn’t tell me when it would’ve made a difference. She didn’t say it, and I didn’t say...

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...

For much of my childhood, I lived with my parents and seven siblings in a shabby, wooden tenement in Bridgeport Connecticut. The...

The doors sigh open. It asks me to enter through its mouth. Quarters jingle and things rattle in my backpack. I swing it around the front...

My daughter’s in the backseat as we drive to zoo camp and since she’s old enough now I switch Pandora to my station and the Indigo Girls...

A blue light blinks on the top corner of your phone. Has for two days and almost 2000 miles. Come home. But you haven't opened it, just...

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