Poetry
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PoetryJust Rest
The reason for writing will come. Birds will peck at the lime outside your door. The solid gray density of fall along the coast…
PoetrySwan Diver
She started taking small steps that grew longer until she reached the end and bounced her sleek body rising as she arced her arms…
PoetryQuiet Baby
He worked as a framer, sawing and nailing rough-hewn boards for rooms made of drywall, climbing ladders until he blew out his knees. We…
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.
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…
