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Your cologne fills the car like beach air before the release of a rainstorm. When I say, I’m new here, you point out the smooth shapes of...

Hooked rug covered with upturned sunlight. Blots like the butts of cigarettes, brown floorboards wet with the verge of June.   Three...

after Nighthawks , 1942, Edward Hopper some girl with pigtails as lethal as cutlass blades made fun of her shoes. Now, she shoves...

The splurge of cherry blossoms before their time at the frost edge of spring waiting for the watery pink light to smoke out the frozen...

Does heaven appear for a moment there in the rich, red line of the horizon? Or perhaps the random patterns of firefly light flashing...

I stand with something as elusive as a shadow. Here within the glistening grasses, the tufts shooting up from ice-melt. Somehow, I can...

Gathering clouds like bunches of fat above. Gray, wavery, a reflection that trembles. The leaves droop down around me, hundreds of...

Underneath my skin, households live in my body. These are the ways I’m a neighborhood: teen bands play guitars in my liver, the twins nap...

May’s end and the fireflies already flash against the tree line. A blink of gold like a coin’s twinkle amidst twilight’s purple-lined...

I’m not thinking of spires that glow so brightly, the teeth of cathedrals formed like ancestral candles, or the words of a hymn, rolling...

I believe in the liturgy of rain where the blue of the mountains is so deep, cresting waves, you think such a shade is a bar of soap that...

It is dark, it is silent, here in land apart from real land, where the stars, now, they are bits of bone in the soil. I hope, and I fear,...

Remember when you came out red-eyed at midnight to stand in the silver night, wanting the stillness to break open into a revelation of...

I wonder if anyone else can see the stained-glass waver like water, almost hurricane-mad, all energy and terrible beauty as the Spirit...