My love works the midnight shift at the old folks home for acrobats. Sometimes two or three performances an evening, there’s little sleep at their age. There goes Hank, righting himself in a fit of passion, now Mabel preparing to take the
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I. Wetlands Preserve Wetlands fill again with heavy rains and thin poplar sprout overnight to trap gentle beasts for predator packs. I find more skulls and splintered bones along the creek beds. One skull stares out totemically: giant sockets, teeth the color
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There’s one universe in which he succeeded. He planned for months, bought the guns, shot his mother, drove to the school, and killed 20 children. But that’s only one. There were others. So, in 2012, he got caught before it happened, or,
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(For my sisters. Jessica. Emily. Pearl.) Far from the fire, I squat near the cave’s mouth, waiting to hear it voice cries of a fresh soul, of a sibling. I have heard the sounds before, held brothers and sisters, whispered to them
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The woman steps from the train and the world stops spinning. The platform and the pedestrians fade away before her, unraveling on the exhaust of the underworld, until all that is left is a man. Him. That same boy that used to
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“When do I get to meet your parents?” Emma asks after we finish having sex. And there it is; the dreaded question. I don’t like questions, period, because they all seem to lead back to this one, but at least it’s easier
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