Today was still one of the wintry feels in my city, which may be a large one even by the standards of New York...

crouching at the great river watching school teem so heavily walking from this bank means nothing

wheresoever that road bends by that farm we go not that way our mothers say wheresoever he may walk turn him to hell and head home

The photo slides out of the envelope first. Its edges are worn from age, a thumbtack hole in the top right corner. The colors are muted...

Couch scrolling in Seattle the summer of 2018, I stopped at a post from Hey Alma, a Jewish and feminist online magazine, in which a woman...

When he wakes up she’s there: the girl who always gets it in this story, sprawled on the bed or floor in an incriminating manner...

An insight into the mayhem surrounding my descent can be derived from a high resolution photo of my corpse reconstructed by court...

Before our whip lesson in Utah, at Arches National Park, David Clockodile—the short, stocky man who'd been running The Indiana Jones...

I remember during those Vietnam years how a lot of things had become easy that had been a problem before. In most particular, it was...

I submit poems to seven places say hi to Anna who found a place near Brandon see the broken pieces of turtle shell my husband found...

Not African, this heat to us, just something that we fled. Any pool would do: strangers’, owners overseas. We swarmed...

What I know is what she chose to confide to my mother after my father had died— how she turned to retrieve her purse, the young man...

It was one and a half days before I had to go to the county courthouse. Spring was the daffodils and no color from the tulips yet and...

One day, you’ll have died fat and happy, bloated cheeks caked in make-up to animate your face; there’s nothing vatic in saying this in...

Thérèse is dreaming at The Met, eyes closed, her left knee raised, revealing white panties: Balthus claimed that the only thing exposed...

In a long ago classroom, physics was invented by a bald teacher carved from rocks and clouds. He stepped from behind a podium and bid us...

This morning I can’t unread How the onion the leek seller Summoned to retrieve The corpse of her son...

I’m in a country of refuge lovely lawns always a warm embrace here not that I know anyone but the days are sunny everyone has projects...

I met her at the park on a sunny day. She had violet-coloured eyes. Contact lenses she ordered from Malaysia. The pupils were bright like...

I want you to know it wasn’t like that. We didn’t meet at a bar. When I met your fiancé, the scene was so unthreatening, unassuming. It...