A man by the name of Skinner becomes famous for keeping caged pigeons, whom his clock feeds or starves at random. Their tiny twitching heads exaggerate until...
Died: Our vows to love, honor, and cherish. Time: Left suddenly on a bright summer day Cause of Death: misgivings, duplicity and lack of faith. The dearly departed left behind a discarded lover who has inherited an estate of left over memories and a grievous soul. The deceased...
I admired the sea, most days, but not the heirs or millionaires sailing in stiff-capped winds, buttoned for summer. After all, we were the spectacle, two women touching in all the wrong places, furnishing rooms with no children in the hull of a house gone still. She had...
Down the lane winding between & behind houses, I find the cottage I rented after I left Michael, he painted it bright yellow, decades later it’s the same color, Mike with stars of paint in his curly black hair, standing at the door,...
When Eloise tells Kofi she wants a divorce, he sits naked on the kitchen floor skinning an ox tongue to prepare Eloise’s favorite dish. Blood trickles down his fingers onto the floor. This is not in my head, in my head the bruised organ is...
It's as if someone should give a gift to my people— they will kill him if he comes to the troop. It is otherwise for us. Wulf is on an island, I on another. Fast is that island, surrounded by fen. The men on the...
Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself — as it will seem to do— With 'I have saved this afternoon for you'; And four wax candles in the darkened room, Four rings of light upon the...