“An enslaved African woman, unable to prevent her children’s sale into slavery, placed some rice seeds in their hair so…

After dinner, after you have wiped down her highchair, the tray, the peeling surface of the kitchen table, after you…

The cobweb-fine curtains blow in the wind, a storm gathers, the men work in the fields, the cat spits out…

*inspired by the photo “Candy Cigarette” by Sally Mann* Icy blue stare and perpetual pout. Blonde hair like a mini-Brigette…

We are the flowers who remember ice. We grew beside the glacier as it drew away, groaning. Raw stone lay…

From the back porch, they swore, young parents, they had nothing to fear. The moment they’d thought they’d been waiting…

Yung-Su brings a live dove, a Eurasian Collared with dust-brown wings and a black nape, holding it in both of…

So I forget the tanks rolling over the wheat fields towards my house, and now I am on my ninth…

You carry Grandma’s finger in a velvet purse. It’s your turn. Tess doesn’t have a chance of pocketing it now…

The flock scattered across the river at the sight of him, and he watched, drooling—a bony shadow in the reeds—as…