

The Fighter
His movements were slow, a warped shadow, a leg that dragged behind him. His hair was like pondweed, wild and brash, black coils that...
1 day ago6 min read


Alice's Four-Letter Word
IT WOULD SEEM I HAVE NOWHERE TO SLEEP. The concrete scrapes against my feet because the soles of my sneakers are worn, and because I...
7 days ago17 min read


My Wild Axolotl
YOU'RE STARTING TO SHOW. Soft curves. Hand on your belly. A curious tee shirt that says: Autumn Mom, even though you’re not due until...
Sep 129 min read


Father Figure
His thoughts were full that morning, and why not? There was the rough-hewn park-bench he sat on, a replica of the stone staircase in...
Sep 128 min read


Ghost Woman
There is a painting in the sunroom, hasty strokes of grey, white and blue. Splatters . Deliberate and unintended - as though the artist...
Sep 813 min read


A Fire in His Belly
He might have closed the store early that day, had it not been for the red Buick Skylark that rolled onto the gravel outside. Walter was...
Sep 84 min read


The Moonriders
Noni said the Moonriders  weren’t bad or good. She said they were figments of our imagination brought to life by dreams. She said...
Aug 294 min read


Step
You are so much a woman, I’m sad for you. Or maybe I’m sad for me. You are tall, much taller than I remember – a graceless figure...
Aug 2810 min read


Just Another Stuffed Frog
After death, a man watches the people he left behind.
Aug 2722 min read


Poem (Will?)
If tomorrow starts without me Will the world somehow slow down? Will this house preserve my memory like a worn, angel clown? Will the...
Aug 261 min read


A Woman
In another story the lovers are edacious in their rediscovery, the hoary parts masked beneath cryptic, voltaic shadows, moonlit whips...
Aug 256 min read


A Tiny Bit of Hope
Deep in the flesh of Montana where the pungent-sweet air hung like a drenched coat, there was an old vardo-wagon, lost beyond the stalks,...
Aug 244 min read


Lost in Peru
Esther tells me she is not gay, just as the curtain rises and I’m forced to be someone else. Peru. We are on a helicopter - a Jet...
Aug 234 min read


Mister Tubby
Shiny walls and shiny people. Auntie’s hands, shiny from washing them. -Don’t touch, she says. Because I like to touch everything. A...
Aug 237 min read