Family
Dad says we’re going hiking, so we, my brother, sister, and I, know to pull our socks, which are shoved into sneakers, up to our…
When my father slips into compression stockings, I wonder who will perm his new blond hair. I wonder who taught him how to apply lipstick,…
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…
Someone places a floor at my feet, but because I don’t know what floor is, I call it door and fall through it. In the…
Clouds form when the temperature of moist air cools suddenly to its relative dew point, thus allowing the invisible water vapors of the moist air…
His parents were quiet about it. Slick as Crisco, belly buttons bobbing up against each other the way I’d pictured Oreos getting made. We stood…
Every time she turned around the kids were shoving fake food in her face. Not the plastic kind she played with growing up, but elaborate…
carved, old mountains If she looks through the trees behind her daddy’s garden, she can see Hillcreeker houses that are not brick and seem smoky….
A blue swell pushes across the water to Bolinas. The curving lap a comma between land and sea. I carried two mermaids in my body…
Outside the city there are lumberyards and there are ravines, men playing soccer, freeway passes and bridges, then the plains, and at one point, a…