Dig
They’re covering the windows with black plastic. Dawn’s words are shot through with the usual expletives. Leaning back against the rough woodchip, you toy with […]
EMILY AS THE CANVAS EXTENDS
I know most art for most peopleis indecency explained. I am telling youshe has no explanation. So, what?
EMILY AS I READ HER JORIE GRAHAM’S THE END OF BEAUTY WHILE SHE MADE DINNER FOR THE FIVE OF US
I know we are creek people. Thirsty& waiting. We are a family that uses fire. We are tender. That does not mean we are hopeless.
Waiting for Suzie
Welfare Wednesday comes around, as it always does. Right back down on the Eastside, waiting in the cold for a client to arrive, trying to […]
I Read the History Today, Oh Boy
I read Hesiod and put some notes in the margin. Tapping my pen on the page like playing taps as I thought of those notes […]
How to be a cosmonaut
I promise to borrow bravery, for it’s a paradox to have it. If you never had to act bravely, you couldn’t know if you were. […]
Blue: A Dialogue Between the Sky and the Sea
“I’ve been here a long time, S. And I never mean to move.” “But moving is all I do,” replies a voice from blue on […]
Words Exchanged in Passing Cars
It is not the sturdy wooden beamsthat raise the house aloftthat I study but insteadthe rotting wooden plankstill dark and wetthat haswashed ashorealonethat will holdmy attentionforever
Green
The Wife pockets the stack of twenties The Husband left on the dresser and drives her Suburban to the Fresh Market. She buys Bartlett pears, […]