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The human face evolved independently at least two different times, originally dying out with Homo antecessor some 800,000 years ago, while even

I’m in the shadow of the house next-door, slow-swinging on a squeaky loveseat, thinking about the seasons. The loop. The Möbius Strip

My love and I met near an altar, and over the weeks I could see the relief on the faces of women

June- October   10/5 Dream of a summer camp: pick berries with kids. Lake. No breaks. Big old Forest Service hall. Mom

You’ll dream of this, the finding-your-way by nose, down through a bulwark of salmonberries, outside of time, to the place where the

Field Notes: Worcester County, April Acorns sprout beards spongy-white as grubbing maggots. Iris and crocus give way to forsythia and hyacinth; violets

The primate pushes its knees against its mother’s stomach. Its eyes closed, it navigates by primordial attraction, slowly nudging and twisting its

On my last afternoon as a failed trophy wife, I sat opposite my husband in a windowless conference room. My life—as wife,

 Paul arrived on a military hop from Anchorage to Juneau in his fatigues and camo jacket around noon on Tuesday. Because Pops

Slow smooth snow outside this window sculpts ridges: animal tracks, footprints, blade marks flaked away: we through the afternoon slept, woke to