“This will all be gone by the morning.” The voice was very similar to last time. John stood up in his field, the wet soil clinging to his jeans, cool in the palm of his hand. There was tenseness in his body; it was rigid, though he wasn’t afraid exactly. He felt territorial again, ready [...]
I Drink Your Blood, Lord Jesus
Father, I’m not clean by virtue of / the good things I manage to do— / I have been given the wedding invitation [...]
Spring Day
“Two hands. One hand and one hand that looks like a book,” Evelyn explained to Gregory as candidly as she could. Because he was her little brother and was only five whereas she was six, she had to take pains to make sure he understood things like what their mother’s paintings meant. They lined the [...]
Kayla and The Ghost Crabs
“Here, take my jacket,” said Newton. Kayla sat motionless on the sand and said nothing. The crabs, too many to count, too small and delicate to fear scurried in a great sheet, a strange, rustling fabric across the tideless flat, which naked now glistened, rippled beneath the wind, moved in such a strange way by [...]
The Orca
“The waves will never cease,” she thought. The mountains, distant, not distant, somewhere reachable in her dreams, if she were dreaming—one step, a soaring, arcing, wonderful thing she did night after night, were blue. And the water passing beneath the ferry was blue and foaming white, sending back, sending back to where it spread itself [...]
The Palms
alone and / adoring what / day from an [...]
Hammer, Anvil, Square
When I climbed the hill outside my / house I saw / a red sun rising, [...]
