Mercy The sky opens, an exclamation so blue that all I can do is see it and wonder at its being: Is it the ocean’s dream of itself, in flight? Does it rise from us or does it rest? On…
In Memory of Katrina Miles11 May 2018
Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash In Memory of Katrina Miles 11 May 2018 1. It takes me nearly five years to finish the book that you lent me because I cannot get past that first page which has…
Autographs (1)In Zou Mat Je
Click on the image above, or here, to go through to Zou Mat Je online zine. There are four autographs here (with translations and poetic responses).
Autographs (2)In PR&TA
Click on the image above, or here, to go through to PR&TA online journal. There are four autographs (with translations and poetic responses) and a brief critical essay on elegy.
Autographs (3)In Resilience
Autographs (3) We are students, right now we are learning about life; Our goal is to save our country and our people so we can have life. To achieve this, we must not be afraid to die. This, in 1939,…
Catching the L-WordsAn Epithalamium
Catching the L-Words (an epithalamium) Who can explain connection? The yes and the no of it: one thread chosen from a multitude of tangling possibilities, one thought leaping between two minds, one football kicked in the air, a heart falling,…
Searching for Words
Searching for Words Our bedsheets never really needed washing before. Could have had them on for months and they wouldn’t get as dirty as they do after one day with David. Sand. Biscuit crumbs. Bits of banana. When he has…
If I Want to Keep Beauty
If I Want to Keep Beauty Standing in front of the mirror, combing my daughter’s hair— glossy dark chestnut softness, the silver comb. Watching my son run forward into the pack, to take the mark— the arc of the football,…
Farmgirl Marries
Farmgirl Marries BRIGHT-EYED SUSIE DROPS BOMBSHELL There, at the dining room table, she lets it fall, news of the decade, they sit in silence a moment, her mother begins to talk— SHOCK NEWS DOES NOT GO DOWN WELL PARENTS DISAPPROVE…
Friend(for C)
Friend Published in What We Carry: Poetry on childbearing Featuring diverse voices and perspectives on experiences of infertility, conception, termination, loss, pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum period, this collection illuminates the endlessly different ways the potential to carry life…