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Deep-Rooted Memories

Mirror

Birds

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Daylight Savings

Progression

Genesis

Genesis

Revelation

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Pest Problem

Rough Tongue

Iconoclasm

1. n. "image-breaking," from the Greek eikōn, meaning image or likeness, and klāsis, the act

Grief

standstills memory,

intersections, or desert theophany

My mouth to your mouth to your eye to the green of March’s

the cartographer’s redress

There are a few things one should know about holy land.

Changing

The shell was empty but perfectly shaped

Sappho Tells Aphrodite “Nevermind”

Lipstick weighs down on my lips by the fifth hour.

Be like me.

Only write about fingertips and rivers and Christmas lights.

Fiberglass Gargoyles

For years my last resort has been a dull Swiss Army knife—

Space Burial

How life grows out of fiction

This Will Be Forgotten

Behind them it was open. Not wide, but still open. But an

Gaping

with eyes blinded and arms out in front of myself to try and sense the way toe tapping puddles elbow scrapes ancient words that

Overhearing a Girl in the Next Apartment Over Discussing Private Information

George Washington didn’t have a middle name and never went to college. He never got to go study in London, but he was an

Texas Doesn’t Miss You

after Adrienne Rich

Trompe L’oeil

I was paid to watch. So I watched. I watched, a little dreary-eyed, while the light from the television covered the room in

The Duration

He squared his shoulders, took a deep breath, and looked into his son’s eyes. Be safe is what he wanted to say, but before

A Darksome House of Mortal Clay

“‘Burn sacrifices once a year to magic

L'esprit de l'escalier

Let’s get to what this is really about: three sounds.

How I Quit Smoking

My wife Vivian inherited this strange ashtray from her grandparents: it has a rocky black surface, and it looks like those

St. Paul's, Six Years Later

I could see a perfect summer day outside the stained glass windows at St. Paul’s. Mass was dragging on and on, as