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…
It was just a door. Paint curling through the dust from the people-filled street. Minds on their own business. A ragged curtain covered the small…
I ran away a lot. Unlike Dad, I never got far. Once I hid in a field till a thunderclap rattled me home. Mom was…
We looked towards the horizon through sea-sprayed eyes and matted fringes. You were my sharp-eyed figurehead. Your sand-gritted legs curled round the sturdy neck; small…
The quick brown fox is tired of fame. What’s wrong with repeating letters? He drags his lazy dog into Llanfairpwll’s hall of mirrors to tease…