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Big Mouth
Alice enters a Nebraska fair’s marble-mouth contest and finds the courage to name what has been silently haunting her.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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Landscape With Birds
A week after I saw the cranes, bombers came from the east, following exactly the same flight path as the birds, and circled above us. They seemed to drop their…
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Meeting Roberto
At the mic, I eased out a breath to calm myself. I prefaced what was to follow. Then I went into it for fifteen minutes. When I was done, I…
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When a Girl Meets a Boy
Girl met boy. Girl liked boy. Boy made girl feel special. Boy left girl. Girl’s eyes got colder and harder. Girl’s heart got older and wiser. The sun comes up.…
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Reluctance and Other Poems
Let the broken screws and bones of these nautical messengers carry their wisdom home: that there’s nothing more disabling than seeing tomorrow clear as day.
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Untitled IV
Kareem felt content knowing he had pursued and received his heart’s desire. His admiration for the painting required no explanation, reasoning, or scholarly analysis.
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The Mystery Man
Ensconced at his corner table with a window view facing Loughrigg Fell, he placed his backpack deliberately on a chair…they watched in silence, transfixed, as if observing some exotic religious…
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Four Plus Three Poems
Semiotics Mum talking with her hands driving fast Instructions for Goal Celebrations, or If You Should Score 1: Scorer gives a fist-pump, points or fires invisible arrow. 2: Scorer rips…
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These aren’t happy tears
Outlaws The crowd Trembles As the outlaws live. As one man Homeless Writes poetry With cigarette ash. As one woman Starved Dances ballet With blood on her shoes. Me,…
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Summer Rain
Still alive, still alive, Marie thinks. While he remains with her, his impending death is hard to imagine. He’s dying, Marie knows. She doesn’t delude herself into thinking it won’t…
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The Extraordinary True Life of E. Pluribus Unum
Like Washington, the hero of the Revolution and the first president of the nation, I was instructed as a child not to lie (something some recent presidents thrived on) so…