
White Trash
Your perfume suffuses the hall, assaulting me before you do. Jo Malone Waterlily. You only wear it at night, a…
Reel
A dream is a film happening while you watch. A boy running with a flowered pillowcase flying from his hand…
Snow
Still, nobody knows if it’s better to write about snow on a country road from an apartment in the middle…
Dead Things I Gave Birth To
The first person I killed didn’t run. I never knew his name, just his crime, so I called him One.…
The Syntax of Silk
In the small hours of the morning, I forage, taking care to nibble leaves both fibrous and tender, for the…
Blessed
The priest still has a mouth full of cake, crumbs stuck to his lips, when the mom presents a doll…
THE MIGRATION OF DEAD BIRDS
Elena cried for the sparrow, for how it slipped a squeal before it hit the front window, a sound that…
Jumping Off and Falling Out
I felt like television static that year—glossy-eyed afternoons at The Bitter End with a magazine straddling my lap, ears straining…
Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog
But I didn’t ask for a dog. I asked for Grand Theft Auto. Mom says, “There are things in that…
Horsebroken
Handcuffs On the way to see our boy in the detention centre I was wearing invisible handcuffs. “Don’t try to…
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