The Dee spills out, all salty silt and sandbanks. The sudden tilt is disconcerting; the jib collapses, flapping uselessly, like a fulmar with a broken…
You say a rainbow doesn’t work for you, my extraordinary girl whose birth tag said ‘male.’ ‘How many colours do you need?’ I ask, thinking…
Cut a long piece of paper At my bedside she used read me poems. Poems that grew from a sparkle in her eye and exploded…
‘This is not a day of celebration for the Church.’ Thus spake the priest, as the young couple looked up, and St Bernadette looked down.…
This much I know about dismemberment. It’s an absence, and a presence at the same time – a shadow-ghost, a persistent haunting, and a piercing…
Running the gauntlet, Lynnie bats back the tri-color ginger leaves, whacking her way forward, navy baby birds, chirping black parakeets, here now is an owl.…
My mother used to tell me, bone-clean, mind, as foam swallowed my dirty hands. I’d pinch the skin tight around my knuckles, looking for answers.…
OLD Dress, circa 1951. Wedding, 2020. Tulle and fitted bodice. Tea length. Punk black boots, laced up, pointed hat with farcical veil. Marriage in the…
Olive planted her words hoping they would sprout green shoots skyward, drive gnarly roots deep within the brown-hued earth. She waited with child-like anxiousness to…
The beach smells of cotton candy; hot spun sugar wrapped cool on paper cones. We sprawl toast on towels, bodies slathered sticky. Zinc oxide ghosts…