2nd-Chance Letter
Did you get my letter, its heart-stickered envelope with no return address? Did it arrive? Did you take it inside? Did you guess? When you pulled out the yellow page…
Off the Path
Dragging shards of my heart across rooted wrists of the forest, birds all singing sad songs under-toe rip me through the chorus, make me mimic the notes yanked through the…
Hope Is War
Hope is slow toxic spoonful of sugar candy arsenic sulfur-spark smoke after lighting a wick Hope is narcotic, brain powers, wishes pennies, clovers hope is a charming disappointment Last drop,…
Binding Spells
Are we the alchemy of your stones, blood, and sonorous sorcery? Or are we sixteen strands of your hair wound and nine-knotted around the wish-imbued paper I set ablaze in…