I cannot speak the languages spoken in that vessel, cannot read the beads promising salvation. I know this only, that when the green of land appeared like light after the horror of this c...
Now he answers to everything that reminds him of her, a crib rocking, a circle of faces crowing at him. He can neither leave his eyes open nor shut them. Splits the night walking betw...
walking along together in the nation’s capital Joe stopped, stooped, picked a flower— a dandelion to be exact— then he handed it to Jill— who smiled in her white summer, dress...
While there is still some light on the page, I am writing now a history of snow, of everything that has been and will be thought. When a blind poet says I need you to be my eyes, the...
I was a thought, a dream, a fish, a wing And then a human being When I emerged from my mother's river On my father's boat of potent fever I carried a sack of dreams from a starlit dwe...
My husband holds the cold stethoscope to my chest— his brown eyes averted, he listens carefully, like someone taking directions on the phone on how to save another life. My heart is a room...
Such strangeness these days. Morning rising over my head like the quilt sewn of old t-shirts or saltwater waves licking our sun-bleached dock. Then—you absorbing moment, you harvest que...
In disregard of the signs, no one bothers with leashes, dogs barreling unbounded over every grooved path. He’s friendly they yell, 50 yards back. Don’t worry, he’s darling, a cuddle...
The moon tonight is closer to us than it will be for the rest of the year, grace willing, the year we will remember as the Great Pandemic. Pulling us closer into its orbit, shining the ligh...
At what temperature does blood begin to boil? Thicken into a roux, slip between bits of basil, minced garlic, orecchiette; Permeate chunks of spicy kielbasa, bind a dash of salt, pepper, b...