Essay |
“Breathing Underwater”
“Here’s everything I know about ecstatic gestures. Fear is fuel. Not-knowing is pure hope. A girl can want to lose her body.”
Poetry |
“Xero”
“We knew what happened to children born during wartime. We had seen the exhibits, had looked at the pictures without fully looking.”
Fiction |
“Countdown”
“I saw the fate of every person I passed on the street as clearly as the headlights of an oncoming car.”
Poetry |
Three Sonnets
Poetry |
“Killing A Turkey At Belle’s”
Poetry |
“Deathbed”
Fiction |
“Madhouse”
“A mad plumber ran pipes in and out of walls and tuned them so the house would sing dirges as water heated and the tub filled.”
Poetry |
“Make It”
Poetry |
“Self-Portrait at Midlife Crisis”
Poetry |
“The ABCs of ‘Of’”
Essay |
“Mid-April Book of Days”
“At night, you lull yourself to sleep listening to an interview of a woman who studies the brain chemistry of sex and romance. These hormones, the woman says, diminish activity in the decision-making part of the brain.”
Fiction |
“The Silkworm’s Address”
“Testing the omnipotence of thought, we would turn off the heaters when it got really cold, our foreheads burning.”