GASTROPODA

He’d been wishing the horse his whole life. As a boy, he managed the tail, pinned to nothing out back. As he grew older, the outline of...

I lie on my back in the clearing, holding a telescope to my eye, tired or dying - I don’t know which. I used to look for them in...

How did you come up with the title? I was thinking about an unreliable narrator and all the stories I tell my kids about when they were...

He'd always meant to learn to use the washing machine in the flat, but the instructions were a foreign language. His lack of domesticity...

After we broke up actually after you broke up with me my transcendental friend told me that our departed mothers were so upset by your...

I have a secret I clutch in my hands. It’s that I miss you. Who can I tell – my brother, my coworker, my husband? None of them would...

Strapped for cash, Cameron Diaz sold her digital image rights to a start-up called GeneTech. Back then, no one really knew where it could...

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade ended the constitutionally protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. —...

If reincarnation is real, I want to come back as campfire food. A jacket potato, baked in foil. Rolled out of the bonfire with a large...

How did you come up with the title? The title was actually where the idea for the poem derived. During a specific meditation practice...

After the move, I inherited a garden— every bed overgrowing its edging stones with weed and tangling vine, withered tendrils and twisted...

The stars, when they fall, fall like rain, like broken-wing birds, like falling stars. The sky goes velvet black in their absence. They...

and this is how it goes, my skin stuck to the sofa, my thighs slick with sweat, my bra soaked in the sun. so it’s summer, so it’s a dry...

I’m walking in the rain when I start humming that song from Mama’s car all those years ago. We had only listened to cassette tapes then,...

In the morning, and the little ones look like eyelashes as they float down. More eyelashes should float. They say I need to forget you...

I meet a man obsessed with bones. He runs impatient fingertips over my ribcage & grabs my hip bones & kisses my teeth instead of my lips,...

entomology Figure 1. My cousin tells me about her new garden and the little commune of fuzzy spiders that lives there. How they follow...

After a day's hike, you arrive and head straight for the center, where the tiny star sits crying in a dimly lit heap. All of the other...

I saw them all–their heavenly bodies glowing above the dark gap where we lived, the open-mouthed land built by thrusts and faults and...

I remember how much I loved to read as a kid. Books took me from my solitary life as an only child and transported me to Dickens’ London,...