rise and fall, this life an empire lost and conquered your shoulders, in sleep.

On his birthday, after he is in bed, I lift a glass to you and I toast that you don’t show up this year to break his joy or that if you...

It is all small, the fraction of sunlight on the living room floor where the dog is sleeping the slamming door, my teenage son bursting...

I wasn’t counting. I was feeding you on the sofa in the dark, I was rereading the directions on a box of fish sticks. I was down the hall...

Heavy over the fence, I felt them first the cloying white flowers of three furious beauties-- heady and seductive, otherwise complicating...

It was time to hurry up to finish and begin except she was done for, done and I never even started. Needs & needs & needs milky breast,...

Change comes in July a hot wind wanting routed by devout purpose carrying on savagely until in the night your heart goes roaming do not...

the morning after Independence Day. white dress and sunburn, I am uncareful contradiction the opposite of sovereign still lit from last...

longer, sit at the table let them tell you to leave.

we lean into Sunday, like parents do-- he wakes before me talks to us both low and quiet, a first, false glow to blanket the day until I...

no one asks but I am in the yard studying molecules, squinting where the afternoon laps at the shore of dinnertime the winter sun...

February smells like Michigan summer, I keep the windows in the bedroom cracked. The furnace clicks on at 5 am when two birds call and...

My dad died 10 days ago, suddenly, with no warning. The entire first week after, it felt like I was floating alone in a cold, green...

When my husband comes home from work and finds me with my naked rear end hanging out from my closet, I'm sure he thinks it's an...

On traveling to Denver

She’s darker than you’d like her to be. Her mind is always shifting, darting into corners and drifting down rabbit holes. You have...

on starting over again

Hope is a sandwich

After your tv disappears and the dusty space lectures you, you read an article called “How to be alone” and think I cannot do that, I...

Just after midnight, while I was sleeping, the entire world conspired silently in my favor—-to bring to close the last difficult year of...