In a sesone of somere þat souerayne ys of alle,
Þat was þe myry monþ of May when many myrthys spryng,
Þe sonne ys somnore and syre and sendyth tyl vs doun,
And byddyth vs bisy for to be oure bodys for to glade;
Man for to myrth hym in al maner wys,
Bestys for to buske ham on bentys tyl abyde,
Days of rain. The drey outside my window would keel and the wind would plunder. My heart was valent with possibility: I could be anyone now, half woman, half asterism. Fragmental as a new year. Patron saint of the rutilant and cindering. I could...
it skins clean air to show earth's mantle: no place where purity lies without danger, cleaving, a mouthful of alarm, feet gone to thunderous precipitate in one dead blink,
at the drop of a minor squall.
breasts on a statue by the herb garden dampen as its face grits harder stone fangs for protection.
He is wearing a fisherman’s raincoat a floppy rainhat with a long back brim or he is not he is the boy standing under the drainpipe in the full gushing waterfall his eyes are closed his head lifted into the full flow or they are...
On the West Coast, days of rainstorm wrestle the Coast Range, their wet fury driven landward. We never quite known what the sky promises, and there is certain assurance in that fate. It is for that we wait. We’ve already weathered more than promises. They’ve...
Injured, sleep-deprived, sorely tested, Adah, Cain, and Father K are falsely imprisoned in a shallow cave with other unfortunates seeking refuge from their war-torn homeland. It is hard to blame the writers’ room if “Unlike All Other Empires” felt as cynical and...
A smudge for the horizon that, on a clear day, shows the hard edge of hills and buildings on the other coast. Anchored boats all head one way: north, where the wind comes from. You can see the storm inflating out of the west. A dark hole in...
A diesel freight truck roars toward us. A precipice is no mirage for its metal plunge. It is headlong nevertheless. "It carries its own storm," I say dryly, feeling my tongue wet my lips. Trapped steel storming, the faint line just so, just inches just split time, just nothing more than luck keeps...
what if a much of a which of a wind gives truth to the summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry? Blow king to beggar and queen to seem (blow friend to fiend:blow space to time) —when skies are hanged...