Rich guys liking space is such a huge cliché that I won’t ask about Blue Origins or your Picard costume. I’d rather talk about the Clock of the Long…

  Grove Park Inn Summer afternoon, the Great Hall’s cool dark felt like entering a cave. Refreshing but ghostly— an all-knowing chill from those thick granite walls, four-and-a-half feet deep,…

  A professor and a doctor walk onto a farm to measure the mechanical pressure and heat surrounding the inflated carcass of a cloud decomposing on the ground by a…

  We were on the grass in the back of the palace snacking on rare songbirds when Jerónimo sprouted peaches out of his fingernails. The peaches made him look large…

  it is sort of creepy but actually also quite beautiful really if you think about it you look around the room at the accumulation of your days the books…

  Stuck inside, I notice what isn’t: the broken clock on the yard’s back fence; the squirrel jutting from its den like a figurehead on a wooden ship. I question…

  she found a collection of old vibrators when she cleaned out her grandfather’s art studio and the gold and green painting of concentric lines, of a thirty-year-old woman’s orgasm…

  As if to say a body discovers what the mind can never comprehend, my son Jonas is always asking, “Who invented numbers?” “What do you mean?” What does he…

  South Dakota border. Brown mule stirs up dust, leopard frogs disrupt blue stem. Cicadas, their long songs, comfort, hush and darken the wind-broken groves. We walk the deer path…

  Come see the moon, she says. So I go. The backyard is quiet and dark, private and wild. The dog nudges me with her nose. You’re drinking too much,…

  If the ocean rises over me while I sleep. Before the whaling ship and garbage barge.   If the volcano I can see from the supermarket erupts. Where the…

  History, I say, with its high ramparts, its engraved swords. I say the bees are falling from the skies, the apple blossoms will not come into bloom this year…