Lavender and Wild Roses
I’d always hoped that, when the time came, it would have been my mind that would have given out before my body. Not the other way around. My analytical nature,…
The Same • The Women Are Courageous • They Do Not Arrive in Time
Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: The Same Goya teaches us here that suffering is a democratizing force. Napoleon’s soldier is the one dying. He’s fallenand terrified, showing war turningall…
Outside Heaven
Ashburn, Virginia This poem is for the toiling seasons, for the black birds that cut the sky to ribbons, for the thunder clouds that soak the gleaming mouths of cement into…
Fruit of the Dark
The colorful mushrooms, after the rain, under dog-like clouds, bloom.The vultures whirled in the dark-night breeze. From the eyes of the vultures, the reflection of mushrooms in the lake is…
Vestal
And I am here now, below the earth. I have a candle, I have some bread, I have some oil and I have some water, I know what will happen,…
Remote Work
Seeing Travis Colt in my favorite coffeeshop, when I had no idea he was in town, set off a series of internal alarms… but I ignored them all.In my defense,…
Landscape with Clouds, Trees, Hills, Cows
“If you see my family out there, tell them I’m in here. Tell them I’m in here, all right?” Jack half turned toward the voice. He’d been studying the field…
The Other Hand
It came wearing my voice.A perfect counterfeit,learning the rhythms of my breath,the hesitations in my speech.It signed my name in my own hand. At first, I mistook it for thought…
The Cremator’s Wife
Something close to lovingly she sat by his bed as the breaths left him like dandelion spores. They’d sworn their love for over fifty years, which is …