The Lesser Light of Dying Stars
It is believed that Mr. Leon Levitt of Peridot, Arizona, began to emit sometime around his forty-third birthday—“emit” being the retroactive clinical term ascribed by those of the science…
Constellation
We are anchored in the stars —Larry Dossey, MD Before I could grab nitrile gloves & drop the body in the garbage can a black triangle dive-bombed …
After Apple-Picking
—after Frost If it were five years ago I was dying, who would it have been who cared? That one boy I could count on to board the…
inheritance
idol adorned with eyelashes, fingernails, other half-alive things. teeth & psalm, bitten and bless, so much bone. a song, a jewel, to divine like omen — how to begin…
On a Scale of Nothing to All
Part of childhood remains buried under sandcastles. You used to poach grasshoppers with an old hairnet until it caught strands of cobwebs and would not let go. Memories are…
At the Church
Your cousins, a few friends line up in the pew. Your brother— absent. He stole from you, lied that you locked your cupboards to starve him, tried to con…
Morning Glories, Late Autumn
The morning glories I saw less than a month ago can’t be flowering now, more snow than expected yesterday, and several nights of heavy frost the past few…