May 16, 2022
the lost track of time
now that i’m on this track, i can’t find my way back to the main drag. in the middle of 2020, i carelessly drifted off onto a street not quite […]
May 16, 2022
The Proper Application of First Aid in the Wild
Trouble the wound to heal itself. Trouble the earth, the river, this starry night bleeding with animal eyes. Trouble the trees to not shed their leaves before fall, to fall […]
May 16, 2022
Bearded Iris
1 A sort of synesthetic pun: the purples smell like grapes when grapes still had a smell, and remnants of fertility, which we in an excess of ever-more-ease have banished […]
May 16, 2022
Pestilence
1 It began with a continent on fire. Any way you turned the globe, the flames bent with the wrist, the animals — God, the animals — in treetops, singed. The omens were there; […]
May 16, 2022
Mercy Me
said the womenfolk where I was raised, and in my mind mercy was a verb, the action reflexive. Though of course the wolf in the kingdom of winter does not […]
May 16, 2022
You Asked About Longing
“There you are,” the sun seems to say, threading, briefly, a three-day cloud. Wind through a field, across your face — “I was getting used to the absence” — and hair, just-red, tucked […]
May 16, 2022
Soseki’s Shrine
The mother bear stands on her hind legs to bat hard green apples from the boughs, while two cubs slide up the trunk as if black water should flow upward […]
May 16, 2022
The Kingdom
One step into the foyer, the timeline of one small dynasty is framed along the wall: Stan and the boar at the taxidermist’s bench, Papa’s stone farm in Bangor, Mercy […]
May 16, 2022
Inscription
and the roots of the fallen oak tree rear in flamboyant Gothic lozenges: earth sogged from days of rain so ghost pipes spring up, crooking their croziers, spectral parasites. I […]
March 1, 2021
Squall
Today the sun rained down on us for hours before rain shone silver down into the already muddy ground. Each day a squall chases us indoors & sends the dogs […]
March 1, 2021
Full Moon, New Word
April 8, 2020 “It’s so close to our balcony,” my wife whispers, as she waters the herbs we planted at the beginning of the pandemic. The super moon is like […]
March 1, 2021
Nature’s Nature
There is no hiding. There is no sanctuary. There is no safe place that does not bear the pressure, nor indicate the destruction and contamination, of climate change. Damian Carrington, […]