Grave Dressing
There’s a phrase for it, the wayI’m lately loving like a river
is pressed to my door With frightening ease I’ve shot sparrows for food
I did ...
by Emilie Menzel
It is unseemly to blow your nose into a tablecloth. If you share a
bed with another man, keep still. If you pass a person pissing, do
not gr...
by Keetje Kuipers
It came from a catalogue. I openedthe plastic bag inside the plastic bag
and out tumbled fabric fine as flesh.From the hem hung a thread I tho...
vanishing aubade
O bobolink. The bobolink is deadat my door — found leaving my apartmentto school then to work. After some searching, I guess it’s a bo...
The Sound of Roots
We come from the mountains, we have wolfin our blood, we have pinebarb. It is our cabinteeth,we have shotguncousins and dirtdress babiesa...
During a Beat Bobby Flay marathon I think —
I should study knife skills
or fish deboning. Have you
ever held fresh, dead chicken? I have
not, though, I have...
