Barn
Gray bones, having defied weather of an uncertain century, prop the structure with proud...
The Nail
The nail resists being struck folding at the impact is straightened and hit again buckling and...
Forever Burning Fire
Life is a forever burning fire from which the flame of you fleetingly flickers; before, in a...
fence
a wooden line of lovers like rotting fence posts each stake more weathered and hollow than the...
Jack o’Lantern
When she carved the pumpkin her hands sunk deep into it then, as she scooped the flesh, she...
Jackson
Murder at midnight. Scarlet taillights drape a bloody sheet over the Oldsmobile’s cold, green...
Choices
You never asked togive, nor I to take.These, our forced cattlebranding at birth. The advantage was...
Sandal Dust
You are the fourth naildull, twisted and corrodedpiercing the watery heartpushing through the...
The Pursuit of Warmth
He pushed thebent, iron pokerinto the coalsthe way a manpushes his words intoa conversation...
The Things We Do
The scant, gray roomWhere you forced me to liveMe, like a foxSilken, amber furWith hungry teeth I...
Forbidden
He was borndesert frost,a Kansas avalanche;an impossibilityin herlifeposing as savagefantasythey...