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I wasn’t surprised that the first new bird I saw at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is one of its most common.

Maxwell Surely Sr. comes into the farmhouse on Old Stopgap and stomps the late November snow from his boots. Take them off,

S’no Sky Soot and tears hang heavy— burn the eyes. People move as though their flipflops keep sticking to the tarmac. Flakes

a chaplain’s assistant writes haiku 1. A canteen of wine and a bag of Wonder bread. “Have gun, have chapel.” 2. Like

The summer after I turned twelve, my brothers and I were coinslot rats at the boardwalk arcade. Mom and Dad packed up

Born in a wide & lonely field, O’Hare was reared by Old Man Winter, cruel bastard who never gave his boy gruel

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