June 13, 2023
Bonfire
My therapist suggested I get out and see friends as much as possible, so I said yes when my friend Claire invited me to a bonfire up in Enfield, even […]
June 13, 2023
The Good Sport
The Kenyon Review · The Good Sport In any social group of women, there is often one member whom the others dislike, not because she has done anything wrong or […]
June 12, 2023
North Cape May, March 2022
Driving from the high-risk pregnancy clinic to North Cape May, I’m thinking about how getaway sounds like gateway, a portal to someplace real life won’t follow us. I don’t want […]
June 12, 2023
Totalitarian
The Kenyon Review · Totalitarian I put my elbows on a round table painted like a chessboard. Someone orders almond milk instead of cream. At the border, children still sleep […]
June 12, 2023
Ars Poetica
The Kenyon Review · Ars Poetica After I fell, twitching on the wood floor next to the cat dish, I felt my face sculpting into expressions as though rough hands […]
June 12, 2023
Haruspication
You call from San Mateo, where the twin orange trees are still wreathed in smoke, and the doe in the yard appears to wheeze as she grazes damp earth: your […]
June 12, 2023
In the World
The Kenyon Review · In The World Once, you had gills and lived in the water of my body. While I planned for you, put sugar in a dish to […]
June 12, 2023
After She Mispronounces My Name for the Fourth Time
The Kenyon Review · After She Mispronounces My Name For The Fourth Time 一段感情a period of feeling; a relationship A. the muscle on my cheek quivers so I wrench myself […]
June 11, 2023
Grace
June 11, 2023
Leave Her to Heaven
The Kenyon Review · Leave Her To Heaven It was, for us, a city of proxies. You counted your prospective ailments, awaiting your health by planning its loss. Elsewhere, cicadas […]
June 11, 2023
Gran, pre-wolf, plumb morning
The Kenyon Review · Gran, Pre – Wolf, Plumb Morning sky. blue spruce. hemlock. silhouettes in the pane above the rod of eyelet curtain. a paleness that distinguishes itself from […]
June 11, 2023
Summoning Huixtocihuatl at My Annual Physical
Do you eat enough salt? Dr. S. raises her eyes to meet mine — looks over my knobby knees & dark nipples under the gown — her chin still deep in her scribbles, in […]