Sharp the placenames of reliquary Bitter the taste of the buried I stand hunched by the Lake of Saints Disinter my brutal brutalized heartVouchsafe passage to the newly birthedTo the freshly dead and to the undying Lightener of stars, ghost of the hollybushBeware...
Tehachapi Earthquake of 1952 Earthquake!my mother yelled when the bed moved across the roomjust before 5 a.m., July 21, 1952. She raninto the street in her nightgown, Screaming and crying,the sticky night turning quickly to day. With no sensefor the White Wolf...
Watchers They knew, but they preferred to donothing other than watching until theybecame the reckless watchers of the planet,buying, selling, owning, using, feasting with hungrymouths, with hungry hearts that loved only consumingeverything the earth offered them...
There’s no gender in the box,colors aren’t boys or girlsI tell my three-year-oldwho refuses to take the pink crayon,plump hand a resistant fist. I begin sketching two offerings;a razzmatazz squealer with large snout,mud-palace porcine surely no princess.Next I send...
Life is what you make it / Nana said / she knew a thing or two about living / born at the fag end of the century / into just-above poverty / she walked a mile to church / three times every Sunday / for the salvation of her six- year-old soul / mealtimes she sat at the...
Content warning: Death or dying Sometimes things just die. No drama or freak mischance, just the small fading hum of systems shutting down. Neither fear gods nor regard justice nor seek hope, for there is none. But persevere with dull futility, all otherness seeping...
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