Animals
Animals live under the air conditioner, maneuver small bodies through the cracks in the window frames, get themselves stuck in-between panes. When they are caught,…
I saw this one dog by the side of the road. Thing was heavy, with a really heavy face. But no tongue hanging out, as…
Octopi especially love to whisper: “What a bastard you are.” Mine looks more like a squid, but with a darker shade of purple. Although he’s…
The Italian pasta and the ginger seem safe, but the flour and the beans have already been infested with tiny balls that crush between your…
When he’s tired he never sleeps or even closes his eyes. She doesn’t seem to either. Instead, she picks her scabs and skin like bananas,…
The Laysan albatross will spend nearly half its life at sea. This amounts to almost twenty years spent adrift, and though we might follow its…
A red fox in a black garbage bag was my first, and then the countless possums, coons, and the squirrels—for them I just use paper…
I couldn’t see over the dashboard when we hit it, but my father described it as a red flash sucked beneath the beam of his…
The dogs are out back. The dogs are out front. The dogs are a flying fur fortress of spit and of snarl, holding the whole…
I. Notice how even the ringmaster, dazzling in his sequined ensemble, is unsure of his talent: the whip firmly in hand, the frantic pacing in…