As if the underworld were breaking through, lake beds from Uzbekistan to California emerge relinquishing their litter— suicides, the murdered, the accident- prone who one time slipped beneath the…

  As if the underworld were breaking through, lake beds from Uzbekistan to California emerge relinquishing their litter – suicides, the murdered, the accident prone who one time slipped beneath…

  I was handed down a skewed spine, my father’s melancholy eyes, my mother’s disapproving mouth, hands with skin so fine that I’m impossible +++to fingerprint, the flat certainty in…

  Cocooned under the covers, I’m pinned by bitterness, gnawed to the core. The son, Spock, with anger management problems, versus mom, whose reservoir dried up after the water table…

  Stop doing it just because it is all there is to do, though this does not mean there will be other Things to do: Choose a part of you…

  Like a camera whose lens contracts when it’s too bright, I try to mitigate what hurts. I watch the bare branches in pink winter light, a pillow under my…

  The scientists said if I can imagine it, then it exists, if only in some other world: the flamingo as pink smear, a bird wave in an array of…

  Too whiny by half, that disarray of bluejays— don’t listen. Tree limbs scribble shadows on the street; leaves shuffle. Four trash bins— blue and green—stand equidistant on the curb.…

  Gaudy as the Welsh, old as a lady, too-firmly attached to a creature, the things I have to say for myself are changing, dodging mirrors let’s recall the small…

  This is a double-pane flash flood tornado watch 90% chance of warning || This is the crickets’ quickening chirps Doppler radar failed Rorschach test the storm shudders nuzzling into…

  I won’t pretend to know how we all got here. The smoke from the ridge cleared up just in time, though you could still smell it: the haze and salt…

  This morning I went wild with the ghost peppers. Snipping ten red fruit off a plant in the yard, I held them palm to sky as an offering. Evil…