Revenant
They thought that we would go like sheep bemused and walking in our sleep, unmindful cattle herded deep down into the nightmare: the troll behind the closet door, the serpent in the dresser drawer— we...
View ArticleDefenses Down
What if they are the true perceptions of your life, those thoughts which come at two in the morning, when shadows twist and shift like lunatics and darkness presses its cold fingertips hard against...
View ArticleOf Two Evils
No longer are my dreams long halls for monsters: people there these nights are faceless and benign, ready to waltz with me when threads of music knit the raveled sleeve of care. My nightmare enemies...
View ArticleHeritage
There is no word for “freedom” in biology; in family idiom, no concept of the Self. Cruel monsters of my childhood still surface, lurking too close in the genetic pool. How can I stand apart? When will...
View ArticleDear University Office of Risk Management
Dear University Office of Risk Management Please do not be concerned about the fire alarm that was pulled in the library last Thursday afternoon: I did this to test our evacuation procedures. I was...
View ArticleDear University Office of Risk Management (II)
Dear University Office of Risk Management (II) I wanted you to know about an imminent threat to the campus community presented by changes to our dental plan. Specifically, I am concerned about the...
View ArticleDear University Office of Risk Management (III)
Dear University Office of Risk Management (III) You will find with this letter three vials of my blood to help with the university’s new wellness initiative. My aversion to blood made me avoid the...
View ArticleDear University Office of Risk Management (IV)
Dear University Office of Risk Management (IV) Thank you for sharing your reservations about my recent letters. I was not going to say anything, but I think you should know that these missives were...
View ArticleReminder
My thighs touch too close for comfort. Hip bones buried in my sides, old handlebars or the bronze gates to a hungry woman. Pull, she says, come closer. I do not bleed, anymore I maneuver this daunting...
View ArticleDear Dome of Impenetrable Darkness
Dear dome of impenetrable darkness— It is only fair I give you some glimpse of my own birth: that was the year the Andean volcanoes sent England...
View ArticleConvocation
I always knew that I would burn. I knew it even at eleven, standing in the Jehovah Hall wearing a Pepto-Bismol pink crinoline dress, my fat-knobby knees rubbing that rough fabric, the itch of that...
View ArticleThe Belarusian
How can we speak the same language, having two separate tongues? I wonder what you thought of us, all audience and cowardice. You saw your mother bombed and I saw my father bombed. The same dream...
View ArticleWhy I Am Not an Asshole
I am not an asshole. I am a very kind and giving person. Where is MY freaking thank-you? Also, Mr. Pissywussy was declaring 2004 the year of blind choices. Now I have to take time to be grilled on...
View ArticleSome Cats
for Alli Warren every day I see evidence that tells me I should be afraid later I discover not all my friends are true here’s a look at some cats I believe that NBC wants a specific result a key...
View ArticleMy MooLatte
I got a pedicure with my friend Tom yesterday at the mall we’re super special MooLatte lovers and I’m his little dandelion I love him! I wish we were more but I’m fine with what we are it’s good all...
View ArticleThis was only natural
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View ArticleThe Last of the Mohicans
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View ArticleTo Lon Cheney in “The Unknown”
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