a simple equation

I’ve tried to tell you who I am, how we add up. It’s not so easy. The equation isn't simple. I tell you my stomach is a tangle of blue Christmas lights…

Sep 16

2

July 2025

what time and cowardice can achieve

let me tell you, my friend, that I took a picture the other day from the event horizon - your tree-frog earrings caught the darkness, threw it back at…

Jul 21

4

pandemos

pick me up hold me to your ear listen for longer than is comfortable now put me to your heart it’s a better listener anyway dip me in water so I shine…

Jul 7

5

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May 2025

godspell

call and response.

May 5

7

2

April 2025

The Street You Grew Up On

Imagine a street, but not the one you grew up on.

Apr 4

5

February 2025

Not With a Bang

Sing me the story where everyone dies and the author is honest about us. She writes our confusions large our trembling small. We did not understand were…

Feb 13

7

4

January 2025

Bless Us

The rabbit - the bat - the thread between my lips - prayers to patron saints of hearth and home flesh and bone whistled up from these floorboards and…

Jan 16

4

December 2024

Behind the Words: December 2024

There are an astonishing number of new people subscribed!

Dec 18, 2024

4

November 2024

Nothing is Forever

You said I was like the coyote, standing in the clouds, a trickster god as long as he doesn’t look down. But you know how it goes.

Nov 30, 2024

5

October 2024

esrevitlum

it’s sparrow season and our scripture is written in all the flowers that have fallen giving way to seedful pockets and the colorful dead withering…

Oct 26, 2024

7

2

things that didn't happen

the list was made the plants were watered the dish was placed in the sink the walk was taken the window was opened wide like a smile for sun-warmed air…

Oct 12, 2024

4

2

August 2024

multiverse

it is goldenrod season and our cosmology is written in a wild carrot flower nebula, mullein comets, constellations of coreopsis. what laws of light and…

Aug 18, 2024

5

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