They hadn’t told anyone about Jack’s cancer. Not officially. Jill had known. Of course. She was there when he got the call, there to see...

There once was a girl who was afraid to die. The fear knotted her stomach and caused her to shake. Her tears ran dry, and she could do...

There’s nothing inside my coconut bra but the tourists don’t need to know that. They watch my hips, and the men grab their wives’ hands...

My husband slips under the waves and never comes back up. I watch the tide claim his balding head from my beach towel. The aquamarine...

From the passenger’s seat you reach over and turn on the radio. With the windows down at sixty-five the sound is stifled out of hearing...

Cycle 4000 entry 341 My master has not been tending to me as of late. I miss the touch of his fingers. The quick strokes he makes along...

A woodpecker razzing a tree rousts me from a dream set in a ruined clubhouse perched at the extremity of Brooklyn. Broken glass and...

Sunbathers soak in blasted brilliance. Umbrellas on the shore a kaleidoscope canopy. We unpack close to the break feel spray on our...

Jacket: on. Boots: laced and tight. Sweatshirt and sweatpants: saggy for loose maneuvering. I’m on the midnight prowl. I’ll start on...

Freckles dappling skin, how long can you lie in the sunshine before the burn comes to lay waste to your flesh? How long can you stand to...

Anchor chains break, and ships drift to shore. Wrecks collect with the tide, rust, and recede. And every hundred years she comes to...

Once, she held me in her rippling arms, soft Mother, breathing her buoyant, murmuring life into my little body. Her shores stretched like...

i have gathered bits of skin and memory and have packed myself in Tupperware to a city whose name only birds have heard at my hometown in...

When I was younger, I think, I wanted to be an astronaut. Lying on the roof of my not-so-mobile mobile home, which sat on concrete slab...

“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to...

The cat tails loft upward, moving in the breeze. This a place of light, where we are made of light, where we float on water.

The sun has let go for the moon to begin surfacing, as the multitude of colours erupt in the sky, you curl your fingers and lace them in min

What’s the sweet science if not a series of experiments where irresistible force meets an immovable object?

Melba held the moon in her hand, caressing it gently, opening and closing her palm around the silvery sheen. It often slipped in through...

If she could write you a letter, she would say that she tried. She’d apologize for lying, but it’s all she knew. Lies, and want, and him....