Chukar Hunt We're in the John Day valley chasing chukars all afternoon. A beautiful Asian game bird, a little bigger…
In Rain If I could only open the skies and swim in rain. The ground softens, loosens stopped sorrows, grows…
Hominidae or Homo Sapiens This is the side of my face that he sees when I sob in therapy. I…
To the Tenth Planet What do you look like? We may never know. Now I understand the man who walks…
Later, of course, catastrophe but for now there might as well be oceans, floating outside this apartment. summer has fallen…
On The Brink Back end of a town on the sea-brink, sentinel mountains the rock-gods marshalling age-old cold, time elapsing,…
Seven Apples After, we ate a Gala I split with a knife—his two quarters with the heart sliced out, mine…
Animal Sound Animal I have no name for biting me below a canopy of blankets, I am scared. No nightlight…
Empty On the birdless day at the refuge the morning was lento cattails barely moving in breeze. The canal twisted…