How to Belong be Alone It all begins with knowing nothing lasts forever, so you might as well start packing now. In the meantime, practice being alive. There will be […]

GENESIS I listen for a sound, a voice, a whispered word swept in by the wind to get me from here to there— where the page before me becomes more […]

NO SUCH THING AS THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER Silence rides shotgun wherever hate goes. Andrea Gibson from You Better Be Lightning, Button Publishing Inc., 2021 I was grateful to find this […]

Late Fragment And did you get what You wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself Beloved on […]

Love Calls Us To the Things Of This World The eyes open to a cry of pulleys, And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul Hangs for a moment bodiless and […]

The Kind of World We Live In —lines for Lent The kind of world we live in is fraught with where and when the next outbreak will occur, which passenger […]

Dear Tongue, I like the way you tender the inner flesh of cheek, bend to touch your hinge in the red-flesh crevice of your cave. I love the way you […]

AMIE WHITTEMORE FEATURES BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY  Song Listen: there was a goat’s head hanging by ropes in a tree. All night it hung there and sang. And those who heard […]

The Crows I left out a bowl of rice dressed in violets and honey, unsure if it was offering or temptation. A crow appeared on my kitchen counter and ate […]

Invocation Don’t listen for just one voice, nor different voices saying the same thing. Understand this: each skin has its own mouth, each mouth has its own heart, each heart […]