A PAIR OF AIRS For Summer, from Winter   A little bird said you’re thinking of me. I get wild with torture, poor chickadee.   Should I warm to a halo or an angel in the snow? Summertime, I’m afraid I don’t remember how.   Here is a snowflake that looks like a lover swaying […]

The lights are always on in the room of escape & leisure. If you’re passing by, you might mistake it for the dim glow of a falling miracle.   On its wall, a woman with her baby and goat sit still on their knees looking up towards the sky painted in watercolors. They pray in […]

It was because of Alex that my own obsession with her, one that I could call my own and not his, grew, because when he watched Donna the way he did I wanted to know what it was about her, and so I watched her, too, and I watched him watching her—the way he found […]

She never did get out of that town. It is a very common story and this one is hers: Her father insisted she and her sister wear skirts until the 7th grade. No one understood why he did this. Everyone understood why he did this. They had no brothers. Her stepmother was famous at their […]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first meeting of the Please Stop Killing Us and Destroying Everything That Sustains Us Society. I know that some people feel that organisation and protest are not the correct responses to recent events, including the events that involve us being killed and everything that sustains us being destroyed. Some […]

THE SHOPPING PLAZA   My mom’s car is full of leaf beetles. For each beetle that flies back out of the window, two new beetles appear. My mom does not acknowledge the leaf beetles. She is late to meet my sister at the shopping plaza. My sister is waiting at the shopping plaza. The shopping […]