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Consider the osprey drying out her wings. Neck and face white, bent water wings outstretched just so; she, shaking them off perched high o...

I have been unpacking the dead lately. The rooms of my heart are stacked with boxes holding the dead all swaddled, nicely, and put awa...

Be careful with the word deserve , my papa says. Don't throw it around.  * - * - * Yesterday, like every June 11th for the last 16...

It's quiet right now. Shadows are silk on my hands as I type. The sun is about 6 inches from setting behind the vacant house next to m...

With fear of sounding over dramatic or forcing emotion from the reader like wringing out a rag, I want to tell you something: There was ...

Monday I sat incredibly still for the first time in two years. Added the last line breaks, capitalized the D in dad I forgot to, took ou...

A woman I barely know told me, as I sat topless in a warm, quiet warm, that I am destroying my body; I am allowing stress to devour the st...