I live between a Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Red Devil gas station between panic and pregnant teenagers between the turnpike and Rt. 81. The off-ramps
Debra Marquart
after Megan Denton Ray Yesterday I drove to Flowerland and bought the smallest cactus they
This is mostly about learning to grow. To let the seeds do what they do, to germinate, to let the plants mature. This is mostly about
My thighs ached for days after that first night - The slope of Montreal's long-extinct volcano (Its cross still proclaiming colony and empire) Imprinted on my
“The fuck?” I wake up facing a wall of my dormitory room. A moving light casts a nearby shadow. Half awake, I grope for my glasses
Eduardo knew what was coming when he entered Rosario’s room and saw her leaning heavily on her brass-handled, wooden cane and staring out of the window.
I. I see her leaning over me; hands plunged inside me, scrubbing her breakfast dish, scouring the eggy skillet. I wonder why she is crying. A
See them rocks up the river there, right where it curves? That’s the kinda place where you might find a nice trout pool. But you notice
There was a path beside the ocean. She used to go for walks along it—sometimes with Jack, the family dog. The path wound along a bluff.
Land of Enchantment Four years have now passed—incidentally, the same amount of time it takes for light from Alpha Centauri, the nearest known star to the