Post Masonry – Style 2

Song Sung Blues

You wore your smart grey suit, or was it blue, broad white collar almost covered…

The Local Haunting

Lamplight pollinates sidewalks in our tepid little village. The late summer dusk’s a furnace gorging…

Flayed inheritance

I've been wearing my mother's skin. I'm not sure when I started, exactly. It's a…

Michael’s Angel

I was nine and a half years old that summer and most of it passed…

There’s Fennel for You, and Columbines

-after a photograph of Alexus, 2003

Visiting Spirits

At the shore, I am called upon by two women, rivulets of their presence run…

This Very Night

Tom looked up at the white plenum tiles of the examining room as a nurse…

The Day I Remembered My Soul

When I was 24, I killed myself. I put it that bluntly because it was…

How Would You Grieve Me

One day, she said, looking up at me while planting parsley on her little patch…

Beneath Grandmother’s Sunflower Field

I return to the house— palms anointed by intention, to steady its posture, to lead…