The Allotment Gate
First Rung The first rung is the worst. It shouldn’t be, it doesn’t make sense, not when Kezia considers it, as it’s on the bottom, […]
Langue and Parole
My mother speaks a language other than I. She was a francophone in her Canadian childhood. I am not part of her elite vernacular assembly […]
Lunching in the Snowscape
Lunchtime is a late clarity for words; shame on robins for chanting awayas the frost moulders on our patios, snowscape scents mix well with funny […]
Hey Heidi
Hey Heidi,You hate me. I get it. I’m not crazy about you either. There’s so much to dislike—in both of us, I guess. Unpleasantly Yours,Sarah Hey […]
Modern Life: A Tragedy
Must go outside beyond the concrete square where I smoke long cigarettes & cough, pluck oak pollen from my hair & cough, spit, cough—not the […]
An Apology c. 2007
Fiona Apple waited until she was forty-two to give us a line from when she was fifteen Thirty-one/nineteen Marble smoothness melting to a waxy rot, […]
Mermaid Girl
Feeling blue in my eyes with waves rising. She is there, mermaid girl, in the blue sea. Heart of glass breaks in two, […]
IN THIS CANOE
we are safe.We are safeon the beachin this canoe.At night, alonein this canoe,we are safe.There might be the soundof crabsscuttlingand dogsbarkingand wolveshowling inthe mountains,but not […]