was what the search engine recommended before I could finish my intended question—what kind of bird changes its song? The bird in the old oak over my parents' pool…

  I look outside and see my mom, pruning her spiraea on the first full day of fall. She still moves with ease mostly, looks ten years younger than her…

  Bella Vista, Arkansas The roll of the waterfall calls to me. Dirt clings to my shoes stepping past rocks on the path, trying not to scare herons feasting nearby.…

  It was fall when I showed you the desert. The imported +maples on campus beginning to turn while unseen coyotes sang in mourning. The San Gabriels ran to our…

  When I am drunk enough, I am reminded I can frame whatever I want. Between you & me, home. Between you & me, the eyes of your binoculars. Between…

  I didn’t travel much growing up, couldn’t afford it or the demands of state lines and TSA. On my first flight disentangled from Spirit Airlines, I hated the first-class…

  Though I am unphased by the sight of blood and have no problem staring down the barrel of a needle, I hate getting blood drawn. My veins are what…

  Once, it was feared that exceeding the speed of sound meant a man might outfly his voice and strangle on his screams. Not laughing, a woman tells me that…

  Because nostalgia prefers melancholy, say distance. Because distance is my nemesis, say conquest. Because I am a fable made flesh & bone brimmed with dirt, say massacre. Because I…

  you may be sure my husband’s alarm +wakes me. We spoke of time this week. Is time a concept, construct, illusion? +Yesterday I changed my pants, twisted my knee…

  I swallow my grief like a confection, tongue the sweet until it too disappears like polar ice and the bears, bees spiraling to oblivion, my father wasting in his…

  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++my father sips coffee while i dance +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++with a sailor on a strand of leftover +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++light from a dead star and i am +++++++++++++++++++++++++++cinderella in the back bedroom +++++++++++++++++++++++++++again…