Dear One Medical You are here for me, for my physical needs for my mental needs and did you say,…
Darning She is always darning the frayed fabric Of things. Socks or sentences, she contrives To darn them, with the…
Eating Infinity Crouching on a long-shore bar, I watch hairy-chested men with a shovel, grill grate and lighter fluid dig…
How Are You Doing? You always jerry-rigged your life, just made it work, never worried how it looked or if…
Meeting a Cottonmouth My camera lens coils to cricket frogs pouncing on the river. Somewhere, cave salamanders, blind as soap…
Snips With Knives Did you like the movie Running with Scissors? I ask mom about recent movies. I am watching…
Corvidian -- for Brian Doyle, who made the word Oh Lord, make me corvidian Crow-like, ravenesque Feathered (pterygial), flighted (alate)…
Artist Statement: I have drawn as long as I can remember. One early memory—I used a needle to incise…
Diane Raptosh’s fourth book of poetry, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award. The recipient…
Dear Zygote, You should enjoy your limniad state, nymph-like and windless, there on two sides of a threshold. Howsoever, the…