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change, small and flat

  We laid coins on the tracks until the adults, wearily pulled from their disregard by the seeming inevitability of our bad decisions, looked up from the campfire roused themselves […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

not a magpie

  She gathers bits and pieces, none of them shiny, rubs her fingers against rough edges, eyes closed, trying to work out how to shape a thing from twigs and […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

lead

  Behave as though everything you do matters even when nothing does yes else when the dog breaks free of its leash as you walk along the river you’ll stand […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

strung

  I fill the car’s tank with gas remembering the times you told me always be prepared to drive away Would you be disappointed how little leaving I have done […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

coyotes

  under bale moon through the night and neighborhood rolls the sound being unto itself sloshed up against fears soothings membranes and our claims of a broken world wild liquid […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

fall past tense

  A stranger took an axe to the legs of an informational kiosk meant to offer welcome to wilderness felled the whole damn thing and then chopped it to bits […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

violetear

  no I’m not surprised in fact I’m exhausted by your constant need for incredulity’s validation speak to me not of men their disappointments and yours instead stand with me […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

I’ve taken

  I knew when I saw you I’d gotten it wrong but it was too late to hide the offering unwieldy in my arms pale green ribbon whispered undone tissue […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

she said

  she said … She was a woman who made conversation of the sort I disregard I let her words slip past me as I stared at her face and […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

and then some

  Her voice breaks. “Here’s what you don’t seem to understand: I will blame you always for this.” He shrugs. “That doesn’t even make sense. There is no blame here. […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

spin

  every day she watches for royalty her moments ruled waiting for the tiny golden crown this is her plan to be so small in her focus so lessened in […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

evidently

  she doesn’t remember anything that matters but birds folded from the ingot sky to earth enveloped held dark shimmer smothered to decompose the giddy shriek of collective winged refusal […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

how

  I held you all this time one-handed existence fingers entwined with yours I know this as I know my breath as I know the curled ache protective in my […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

raptor

  In my yard flung leavings the small crushed wrappings of awareness indigestible gentle I flatten reshape into something mitten-like into which I imagine sliding life only mine to offer […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

observance

  Once a week thursdays early before the world has edges the woman colorless from sleep barefoot against the not-yet bold of fallen leaves unseen cracks the seal bends to […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

agnate

  the ground on which you stand is firm it’s only memory shifts the world and memory is mine to fling loose unremembered fulcrum so do it again just like […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

All the little lines

  She held her breath, pressed her palm to the window’s glass as the headstones raced away, and then spoke into exhalation as the scenery changed, “Don’t bury me.” Accustomed […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

wake

  it’s difficult to know anyone exists dressed in wanting but her small cold undoings these lies of yours make a river her fingers bare and loose trail in the […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

wasps

  The wasps have set up housekeeping in the space of my neglect where echoes muddle meaning so rage twists on itself mere white noise now against my cheek thrum […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

and ten

  Now that you’re gone stand still arms outstretched in the middle of absence as I sort the possessions untangle the lines words from drift hang the suns leaden lures […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

littlest faith

  after the scything the world vibrates ever with loss you lift to my shadow plead of me mistaken break my heart I offer not what you ask but otherwise […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

blank before fear

  She dreamt (the worst beginning) everything turned on the story entrusted to her telling but her hands clenched vicious defense around meaning flesh bitten by unfolded details her mouth […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

be everyone

  a kindness this agreeing to be those who were mine forgiven forgiving on behalf of the missing and absent and gone be everyone to me smooth the sheets crackle […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

raze

  The only hint something was wrong for those not paying attention was a ladder left aslant against a tree long after the fruit rotted from the branches and madness […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

in gone

  Did you think when I begged for assurance when I asked you over and over and over again to come looking for me if I disappeared that my departure […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

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