YOUR POMPEII
It’s fire season and I want to be a better god; to be your pompeii
but one morning I... more
I need him to walk me back to the bus, but I still know I have everything he could need if he asks for it
I painted my lips and fingers red the first time I was unfaithful. It was in college, with a girl with sharp orange hair who had a smile... more
Jessica never sold more than a dozen boxes of Girl Scout cookies but she got first place in the troop bake-off every year. She was nicer... more
THE LOOKOUT
A person looks out onto the ocean. The water does not look like it is moving. Is it a... more
When Rose leaves, she hands me a lamp and says, “I’m afraid it will break in the move.” She tosses a bag of Twizzlers into her... more
She focuses on efficient point accumulation: jam, 12 points.
1.
Maybe I’m an idiot, but those waves are
talking to me. They fall apart on the beach
then recoil, and the... more
Skincare for Trees
Take care of your skin she says, over the dinner table,
tracing lines on the table with thin long... more
Gentian Violet
For years I lied
to everyone
said gentian was related
... more
It was a Sunday morning in Delta, Mississippi when the body of the missing Negro giant washed up on the bank of the river. First news of the creature’s arrival was brought to the town by a local fisherman...
I slept with Sam in my bed when he was still a puppy, even though this is supposed to be a bad way to train a dog. He woke me up... more
Andy Carr is stocking shelves at his local Value King supermarket when a forty-year-old woman taps him on the shoulder and starts yelling in... more
My parents, three hours into their marriage, ate sliders and crinkle fries. It was the summer of 1987, an Original Slider cost just 30... more
But every time I listen to Brothers, I can hear her voice.
As I headed north, to your border, darkness fell, and I could see only the two cones of light extending from the car’s... more
About two weeks into the Coronavirus Quarantine, I began noticing some odd behaviors.
He will present it like an offering, like an opportunity, like the whole human history of men holding out... more
My favorite period historically
has been the interim period
I wandered the recreated Titanic dozens of times during my middle school summer of 1998, hiding from the heat and shitty... more
