People are less likely to help each other in loud cities, the ecologist said. To describe a silence, identify first what it’s not: the parade marching beyond the window, the ocean’s dull fanfare. Close up, we feel the shudders … Read More
On March 24, 2001, Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson accidentally killed a dove after the bird collided with a 100-mph pitch thrown by the 6’10” future Hall of Famer during spring training. We are only ever as harmless as … Read More
If I had skin, I’m sure everyone here would be jealous of it. I’ve learned over the years that you can still hear a heart beating through the sound of heavy rain. Before you ask: this addled mind isn’t … Read More
canopy// I lay in the dark of my childhood bedroom, hungry for a woman—for linked arms, grins with all our teeth, and howling at a movie projector moon. understory// Here the moonlight spits through the slats in the … Read More
It’s 3:10 in the morning and again, I am thinking About nothingness. I do not know how to stop. My mother said I am a man trapped inside a man Trapped inside another man that is too old to … Read More
At the town council meeting, they want to hold the sun accountable for night. Yes, let’s invent a better fence. Yes, let’s deem the teens gliomas on society. Who stole the bulbs from the streetlamps? Who sold this story … Read More
I kept staring at the pond that led to our front door entrance. As the koi fish swam, I noticed that the one I named Ephemeral had finally disappeared. Every koi fish in that pond was made out of … Read More
Untitled (Black on Gray), 1970 In time, the sky devoured the hill, freeing three shades of darkness from the trees. I woke you, carried you to the window, so we could look for what we’d failed to see. Maybe … Read More
You know tomorrow is the Woman at the Well, my mother says on the phone, meaning I know you’re not going and you haven’t been. You can’t just barge in for supper, kiss the nails, sit back and watch … Read More
I believe in ghosts and angels and god or a burst that made me from love. I believe in a city where no one is hungry with houses made of native grass and biodegradable long-term material and the color … Read More
now, imagine all the women healed— when you heal, part of the earth heals I wanted to drag my father’s family out into the street make them listen to their decades of silence make them wrench their unmoved tongues from … Read More