All obscurity starts with a danger.                       --Sylvia Plath I reach out in memory,…

  The pages in August were pulpy, some as thick as my tongue, some folding over like tendrils, some spinning out of the orbits of their spines, some oozing a…

  Horses glittered in the field Like knives A sudden drop In temperature everything Washed in ash The Yes unstuck Landscapes Picked clean Let’s go down To some train station…

  In the heat I hobbled             on my phantom limb.             Bark where a pulse should have splintered.  …

  Small enough to crawl in through the pet door to my mind when I’m all locked, so small You nest a migraine in my pillow, gall my hallways like…

  Red-blooded roast beef, ham, haunch           Of venison, creamed corn, custard,                  Claret , it did not matter.…

  A boy is coloring a picture of his family, but he only has two crayons.   If he makes his father’s face blue, he must draw his eyes red.…

  Since he had a girlfriend (now gay), we met just inside the chapel doors, only to descend the stairs separately, like spies, or, in truth, I forget, but I…

  after Allison Wilkins I cannot tell you how the olive oil is first harvested from my neighbor’s trees. How the cauliflower is cut into bouquets, eggplant sliced and divided…

  Arabic of the hair of my husband’s chest each year a new phrase   aquamarines in my hair tremors of light my husband’s diamond mind,   Gift us, O…

  I was visiting the capital city of Slovenia, passing through the park. At the edge was a man selling chestnuts, sitting on a bag of chestnuts, inhaling a cigarette…

  for Darach   So quickly, this child learns the ways of swipe and scroll. We find him, hiding behind the sofa with a small screen, his little fingers far…