Lord, let me understand this barter of essences. You’ve taken my bohemian soul and left me another, strange, cold as a distant star. I look within and don’t recognize myself. Have I spent the magic dust of my previous life? Where are my fits, my excesses, Lord? —from “The New Skin” by . . .
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Michael thinks about how his wife, Anne, is known at her work for making the right call when it matters most. She gladly accepts—preemptively asks for—the totally impossible assignment. Anne always gets the job done when nobody thinks that she, or anybody, will be able to do it. —From “The Rendezvous,” Volume . . .
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There is no sadness like today’s sadness—a spring day so achingly alive I want to breakout of my body. But somebody already said that. —From “There Is No Sadness” Volume 60, Issue 3 (Fall 2019) What writer(s) or works have influenced the way you write now?In my formative years—grad school in the . . .
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I flushed that flock of doves three times.An hour’s worth of wingbeats in a rushand then a rush and then a rush.—From “Walking on a Path by Fisher Creek, I Flushed a Flock of Doves,” Volume 60, Issue 3 (Fall 2019) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.The first . . .
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maybe we’ve got it wrong postponing fire dowsing the stone earth for whitewater whelping green and breathe how breathtaking the last river in estrus dried a centipede seen from above fern fen and fringe of locust and its honey —From “heavenly body . . .
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Photo by Stacie Pottinger of Rogue Studios There are so many waysof burning things, butnot many of containingthe flames they becomethat last. —From “When I Discovered Sacrifice by Fire,” Volume 60, issue 3 (Fall 2019) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.“Detour, Missouri” was really a goodbye to a . . .
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I know you less and less,but forgive your miscalculations, the distances you thought you might travel,and your desire to be good. Time grows between usWith a mechanical agency. —From “To My Younger Self,” Volume 60, Issue 3 (Fall 2019) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.When I was nine . . .
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“I came back warm from a long winter run to find my daughter on the couch, feet raised, arm wrapped in a wet towel, a glass of chocolate milk on the end table where her father’s ashes used to be.” —from “Dark Smoke Rose,” Volume 60, Issue 3 (Fall 2019) Tell us . . .
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But her features were falling off her face and her lap was sliding off her legs and her voice shifted, as if the ground were dropping away, and she slipped inside her skin a little, as if the mask were too big, and the air rippled with voices and the clatter of . . .
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Photo by Guy Freeman. “It doesn’t have to be unfeministto carry them across the bridge if you meant to spend the morningthis way, and know he’s savoring the gesture (and will wash the bowl). . . .“ —from “Across the Bridge Noodles,” Volume 60, Issue 3 (Fall 2019) Tell us about one . . .
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