I was taught the lyric is a song
I was taught the lyric is a song outside of time. In narrative, there is consequence: A leads to B. Before she hit her head she’d been watching the snails heal themselves, tricks […]
I was taught the lyric is a song outside of time. In narrative, there is consequence: A leads to B. Before she hit her head she’d been watching the snails heal themselves, tricks […]
Making tiny work of what I could not budge, the bear lifted my left-out cooler—so heavy it would have taken two people to stagger it to safety— and slammed it down, snapping its hinges. I lay in my flimsy shelter as he tore into what he wanted, smacked his lips, snuffled loudly for […]
Five years into your child’s illness, when you can no longer conceive of life without its dank presence, you see a blanched sky bearing a trace of rose and the moon, risen huge— an affront like your lover’s face turned toward you for the last time, his sweet, rescinded body a scaffold you once clung […]
I don’t know their names & they don’t know yours, though your flesh is now of their flesh as a donor. I try not to get angry at strangers pressing too close, choosing kindness just in case there’s a part of you brushing by. What have your gorgeous, castaway eyes gifted another to […]
So you already know we’ve placed ourselves in the nape of the rake. Copper harp. Sickle- tongued. You know each year we’ve braided strands of wheat into rope to tie about our necks. My father, a Jacques Rancourt too, split back the wormed casing of a rotted tree to remind me we […]
What should not stay unsaid will grow wild as chicory flowers, as the mushrooms on the damp side of a tree. In that time after sunrise but before the light hits the shore, that time animals know, my father took me in his canoe onto Greenwood Pond. Passing by Flint’s cabin and the A-frames, […]
Time dripped from the faucet like a magician’s botched trick. I did not want to applaud it. I stood to one side & thought, What it’s time for is a garden. Or a croissant factory. What kind of work do I need to be doing? My parents said: Doctor, married to lawyer. The faucet said: […]
1. I was 13 & it was night & without even knowing it, I had successfully evaded the Amherst police for 4, 5 hours. It was night & without having committed any crimes, I was pursued, looked into by the Amherst police. Well, perhaps I’d trespassed: scrambled up a […]