What Is Watched

On one hand, there are entire shows about remodeling houses—and I am only talking about redoing my floors. (Totally smitten Continue reading →

Her Epitaph

You left me only Rorschach memories. The fruit scent of still damp hair. A palm-sized egg rehomed in a half-hidden Continue reading →

Widow

You are the second blue line on the test, the Y chromosome in our child, one-half of the cells multiplying Continue reading →

Cutting Cheese

We’re known, my family, in the village for farting, where butter pear trees tremble at nyanya’s flatulence, where the cow-tail Continue reading →

Lavender

There are three things of which my mother never spoke. The weather. She’d known colder, numbers and degrees irrelevant. Threadbare Continue reading →

Premature

I had a sister once—for nine hours. Sometimes I get lonely. Depressed. Like tonight, when I heard raindrops pelting the Continue reading →

The Token

At a dinner in one of the high class hotels downtown the waitress looks familiar. When the two of you Continue reading →

When Insulted on the Internet by a Racist I Realized This

Sardine to a submarine, he didn’t come up on my radar. I didn’t fear the supremacist behind the keyboard, I Continue reading →