by McKenzie | Jul 27, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
Asphalt and salt, the tires burning in the heat. The crops are dying. Brittle limbs, the yellow tinge, still reaching upwards. And then the...
by McKenzie | Jul 27, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
with skyline and sun. The dark shapes on the water are like turtle shells, inverted and empty, then sinking as the sun moves higher. Fish rising and falling with sea and storm.
by McKenzie | Jul 12, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
I am passing through my neighbor’s backyard, and I stop, because her patio door is open. The sun is there, pouring over a table and chairs, all those rhododendrons and pollen. In all that light, I can see up the stairs and into her living room, where the woman...
by McKenzie | Jun 21, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
She will live inside me for three more months. Of this I am certain: we are running on time. We are progressing at the recommended rate. But she is still so small, not even two pounds, and she lies completely connected. There are days when I want to fill her...
by McKenzie | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
After two days hiding under the bed, my cat emerges, carrying his back leg as if useless, the toes on the supporting paw spread wide for balance. He continues like this, eyes wide and dilated, a growl that returns most evenings as the pain sets back in. It...
by McKenzie | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
thinking of Ashley Capps’ Mistaking the Sea...
