9.8 / August 2014

You will be deep in the throes of labor when your husband deposits you at the entrance of a downtown hospital.

Before the incident with Tony’s hat, the most exciting thing to happen in Horseshoe Trailer Park was the installation of my new swing set.

Her diamond’s a mind that bursts like a light bulb: epic, inept and etched onto window panes around the world

Under firecracker eyes rheumy nostrils flare in your rearview mirror

When Athena shows up on your doorstep it’s...disturbing.

Just because she skips class doesn’t mean she’s out back smoking cigarettes with the badboy going nowhere fast for all his big talk.

He usually leaves it in the garden. Covers it with mulch.

Blue sunlight, fields dilated       a little ghost creation sent ahead               to wreck the field daisies from their stems

A moment is an old aluminum bowl, squatting down to eat. A volunteer in a relief-camp. Scooping up a spoonful of khichuri. Consistency like water. Yellow like shit.

The nails started popping out of the ceiling like rain. Just pop, pop, pop, all in a row.

i pledge allegiance to the already fallen snow & to the snow now falling. to the old snow & the new.

The approach to the library from the sea was a rich carpet of mud.