Confession
—for M.F.O. Sent to the front, all around me crack & steel fire, shouting voices— I feared no death, only sat down bullets buzzing hornets past head— And…
The Mirror’s Edge
She slept with the bear to relieve herself of the burden of purity to travel the world alone with only a backpack. Apple trees lit up with ten…
Scattering
—after Aimee Mann I can still feel the ricochet of myself at sixteen, the windows cracked and gone down the years. There’s no warning. I was already…
Herzog’s Penguin
What does it mean to leave a colony? A penguin is heading toward the mountains, directionless, slow and strange. Pearlwort smashed under heavy snow, he follows the grey light…
Teaching Eventuality with Forks Listening
We may not have learned what a verb was but we learned what a noncount noun was. We may have forgotten what a noncount noun was but we learned…
Crossing Lake Champlain at Night
Our directions said take exit 31 or 33 so we of course took 32 and drove off the map into thin gray roads, slanting drizzle, pairs of Rottweilers guarding…
The Sea Is Also a Horse
In Cambridge, I bought a Passport to the Moon, with a large map from 1679 drawn by Giandomenico Cassini, & issued by the Lunar Ministry of Solar System &…