Poetry
Winter 2002
The Rape Garden
First I got down on the hard ground, then I examined the andromeda and what the drought had done to it. Hot and close, halfway to death, the splayed branches […]
Fiction
Winter 2011
Yalla!
This story is a work of fiction from conversations with “Lost Boy” Michael Majok Kuch. Juet, Sudan, 1988 Loud booming wakes me. I open my eyes. The inside of the […]
Poetry
Fall 2007
Key
Arm's yield, body's fit. Let guilt not create the opening. Forced to turn. Stopped short. Clasped in one hand. Vines cut down to reveal the dappled on. I am waiting, […]
Poetry
Winter 2002
Andromeda
The beach still dark, I ran down to the sky,it was all topsy turvy, vice-versamother and father sleeping, encoiledin their ether of unchange.I was changed. The momentcarried me out like […]