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Dilation: 2 cm. It begins with a swell of pain in the night. My belly huge and heavy. A push and a

Don’t Forget You’re Bohemian, Lover Boy I wasn’t there when your cracking foundation first got laid, but I helped you paint over

The police bulletin warned: Presumed unstable. Approach with caution. But the girl didn’t have the look of a criminal. She was early-college

We’re halfway across the High Desert on our way to get a pooka when I finally see one of the fissures—just past

On Wrangel Island, a small patch of tundra between Alaska and Siberia, woolly mammoths survived six thousand years after the rest of

Image/ine “awhile” as a red thread. Tie “awhile” to a sewing needle. Go to the nearest fracking site and wait for a

“The fuck?” I wake up facing a wall of my dormitory room. A moving light casts a nearby shadow. Half awake, I

Land of Enchantment Four years have now passed—incidentally, the same amount of time it takes for light from Alpha Centauri, the nearest

Green green green green green green grass.  The chemicals have worked.  Your house—four bedrooms in eggshell and burnt sienna immaculate as a

For once, I thought I understood everything. What death meant. The way nature moved in particular rhythms and cycles—like continuous waves rolling