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PoetrySkinny Legs
Girls called her Skinny Legs taunting her in gym and pulling off her towel to see the galaxy of sores erupting on her back.…
PoetryThe House of the Children
One day in the torridness, they were riding the railing in the white shadow of the arches, and laughing forever.
Art, Fiction, ShowcaseBreed the Messenger
Reset The Humans loved to burn things up—witness what they did with Mars eons ago. After they torched Earth’s exquisite atmosphere, the cold blew…
PoetryA Boat Called Isabelle
There she goes, through the sultry, the murky waters, her name in dainty handwriting on a dark stern of Swahili mangrove— Allah’s signature in…
PoetryThe Dark
The Dark I am not afraid of the dark. Sometimes it purrs at my feet, in a puddle, round and still. It oozes along…
Poetryhaphazard
throughout my life i held them responsible for the haphazard way they went down their roads dragging us along, but now that they are…
PoetryJazz Tuba
“How Deep Is the Ocean,” his solo like Buddha preaching, telling us what we didn’t know we knew. When my son was born, I stopped…
PoetryBonds
“There are years we lose to people we didn’t realize we never loved.” —Philip Schaefer There are years we lose people. We didn’t realize…
Poetry, ShowcaseShadow Existence and other poems
Shadow Existence On the way to work a large bird flew overhead. I wouldn't have known it was there had it not wedged itself…
Poetryseparation
I left you without saying goodbye though you wouldn't care I was Pluto and you the Sun an indifferent smog grew shrouding a giant…