Solar Panels

  You said we were a senseless pairing—the earth and moon—what if someday the earth falls out of love?   Then the moon will fall into, into—   We were waiting for a train, heads under the tunnel eve, rain pouring down, we were reaching...

Under Stoplights & Sun

                                   What have I learned of compassion? Unharmed, it releases itself as a seatbelt & a bottle of Coke in the morning. Baby strapped down in the...

At Dusk

  Out on a walk, I saw two girls screaming through a two-seater swing, two fans of blonde hair. There was a hill in the way, shoulder-high, and they were nameless, without bodies, the way birds might appear when lying in their nest. I left them against a...

In Utero

  You are becoming too much for me. I find it difficult to read poetry, to read anything. I roll onto my side, the book turning with me, and I feel your body drop onto the bed, weighing me there, small anchor. My lungs have learned a new method of breathing....

The Reveal

  You of average size but I was so small, so small they opened my middle like a mouth the incision is clean, straight, but it was in that moment, jagged— layers of skin cut, the muscles intact and spread open like wire you were inside, waiting; you had been...