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Around the time that I had left my mother’s house to move in with Nick, I got a call from Lucy. This was the third of five instances in...
Sorry to Share With You
that this morning I woke thinking of JonBenét because the news won’t let us let her go it’s the twentieth anniversary documentary I knew...
No Words
You wanted so badly to show me All of your brain tissue on that couch Sticky with tears on the television as It moved in the wind in...
The Moth and the Fish
I wrapped my son’s birthday gift In the cellophane of moths’ wings. It is fragile as the skin on his eyelids, As the chiffon of my...
A Highway Pantoum
Buses are lonesome beasts. When there’s snow outside, the quiet is deadly. Once, I was small as a strawberry seed— The lines on the...
Marboro Reds
I had just filled my head with cement, grey and cracked already under the pressure of, “Please, please, my parents are asleep— Don’t...