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Point of Impact

When you left this world, I was driving back roads that coiled through pine-shadow & crooked/fenceline

Sanctuary

Agatha scrapes open the rusting backyard gate, and a chorus of yips erupts from the inside of the bungalow. The troops emerge from the homemade…

Rooted

In a backyard that looks like Eden moved south/to let itself grow over, my grandmother perches/in a white plastic lawn chair.

Point of Impact

Before I knew you’d died, I was driving/backwoods dirt roads, just/outside the small town we used to share

Communion

At four, I knelt in the garden beside my grandmother, hands full of seed, as she covered them one by one with dark, loamy soil.…

Chrysalis

A clump of five boys Devan’s age sat in the back row closest the emergency exit. Devan gave a little nod and a wave to…

Scavenger

My dog sees it first,/her sleek silhouette/stiff & still &/bristled at the scent.

Home-Grown Serotonin

This year I did something I never thought I’d do: I went off my medication for my depression and anxiety…

quick-write: childhood home

Maybe when you approach it, it won’t look like much. Houses are far and few, but chicken houses abound—if it’s an unlucky day you will…

Mycelium

I am not a tree, ascending/ to reach the heavens./Although I’m not quite grounded

BULB:

a found object sculpture on liminality and queer identity The elements present in this piece are: a house-shaped shadow box, soil, sea glass, dried flora,…

Brief Book Reviews

The First Bad Man by Miranda July: This book is a delightfully weird experience. Full of cringe moments, bizarre fantasies, and the ugly magic of…

Over-Planting

This year was my first attempting a full-blown vegetable garden, and now that autumn has really hit I would say it was a modest success–by…

Pride & Joy

I’m having a hard time feeling the same level of pride and euphoria I usually feel during the beloved month of June. This is my…

Ancestry

I walk a thin and unkept road of rocks,/of dirt & roots, of things forgotten—lost/& found.


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