A mouth knows shapes for certain dying.
Says lunulas grey-bluing
like whites unseparated on
laundry day.
Murmurs knees
violaceous mottling, plum over
stone of cartilage and bone....
I reconsider the sea. How uncomfortable it makes me
that water might decide what breathes & doesn't
breathe. How the shape of
water hides its cruelty. Unleashed,...
and bandy-legged, I passed time
among hills and hay, swam in dirty
pools. The summer skies were green-
eyed, the color of witches and grassy
cow pies. I was greedy for...
Jacqueline Doyle Manka curled up on her white linen couch with a glass of Pinot Noir and opened the new New Yorker to the fiction page. On the left there was an illustration of a snowy...
I was several blocks away, kicking a soccer ball against a cinder block wall. In the hospital that evening I stood alone in the fluorescent hall. I didn't believe a bit of it. Was Gawk in the room...
The word “benign” has several meanings. It can mean kindly or harmless. Or gentle – which is nice. I thought it also meant “sitting around doing nothing,” but this incorrect.
If you are...
Do not make bones at me // I are soonly calcified // I are knowing
of death and of burial // making your spells // into mush words
remember how to incant this // I are not black in my father's...
This is red rock sensibility: Laura picks feathers
out of her hair and whispers, He loves me. He loves me
not. Too much time is spent twisting spanners – a clock
can be wound and rewound, but...
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