May 19, 2026
Dear/Deer
The Kenyon Review · “Dear/Deer” by Harrison Hamm So you bramble into the room. You’re a stag. You’re bulldozing your territory just like a stag would. Nevermind that I’m also […]
May 19, 2026
TruthFinder1982
Migraines made me tremble at the light,suffering laptops, cell phone spreadsheets,hours in night rooms studying the contoursof Little Saint James — inlets, outlets,building roofs displayed on Google Maps.Years when things were wild […]
May 19, 2026
Spring Forward
Upstairs the frisk of scissors, the high, sword-in-scabbard soundof scissors / is scissors, frisking happily through fabric, i.e., the kidmaking things / March, and the air has no one in […]
May 19, 2026
Bone Density Test
The doctor tells me my bones are shallowing. They have learned to leave too. I understand when she says osteopenia, osteoporosiswill hollow me out like a pumice stone.At home, I […]
May 19, 2026
Self-Portrait While being Tested for MS
What can I say? I have known no greater comfortthan the hum of an MRI machine. My neck pinnedin a cage, the thin ring on my finger tugging up, up — isn’t […]
May 19, 2026
Federal Holiday
Love unruly, I dream we’re fightingAn old argument, undergroundBowling alley, sea lions behindChain-link fence, hurt feelings.I wake to you rolled on my sideOf the bed in sleep and I shove,Despair, […]
May 19, 2026
It’s the Moon, Girl
I now recognize me and you more rudely in stories,Left of freckle, resignation of sunburn to brims.Tangerine pool city bunting flutters over blue wadingAnd spray. Lawn flickers. You too. Cool […]
May 19, 2026
Pressure
Bone is the sound of tonightknocking around on the shoreinside there’s another lifecurled up for eonsan old leaf, a molluscthis is what I amoutside it’s dark buthere light emergesshining from […]
May 19, 2026
Despedida Prayer
For C BoogzThis prayer is forthe before timePrayerfor the after Thisthank-you for beforethe beforeThis thank-you forthe afterThank you forthe now back beforeBefore the whenbeginsThis prayera thank-you beforeall our afterendsThe now […]
May 19, 2026
A Prayer Against Etiquette
Is it not holy — the way my love foregoesthe formalities of a spoon?This peasant posture,the silly slump of her spine, the egret angle of her elbowsnudging some invisibleneighbor’s ribs. Tell mewhat […]
May 19, 2026
Holy Saturday
My god—my apple blossom, my stand of crocus comingthrough the tubers of the iris, my blue crown, myiridescent night, my star strand, my golden: Even the dolors of the world […]