Writing
2026
The North River
The locals used to say that when you float down the north river, the sea spirits would judge…
sofreh-ye aghd
for Niloofar and Philip
the mirrored morning
pushes out6.10 a.m.
the floorboards don’t creak
twenty press-ups on the rug
sometimesThe Sound Money Makes
I need a blank page where sounds can sit. How do you know a sound has truly been produced? At…
Subtraction
“What is it?”I had just unwrapped a wedding gift sent by my cousin Barbara. A filigreed silver railing…
The Age of Disappearing
She sat at the corner table in a bar called The Last Honest Place, which was neither honest nor…
How to Pray
I can’t trim gristle
off fatty meat
and pray at the same time,The Community
It started as a Wednesday like any other, hanging like a new moon between weekends. I stood…
The Times Are (after Sylvia)
floss for missing teeth.
Poison on the nipples.
A letter in a shed on fire.Jocks, Freaks, and Nerds (The Ford, Massachusetts, 1970s)
The jocks played
high school helmet-ball.
They dubbed the othersAfter Waking
May. Carnations on table. Mother brings soup. Looks. Fingers trace bowl rim twice.
The Chorography of Placidity: A History of What Was Never Written
Every archive is a sepulchre erected upon the debris of what was never permitted inscription.…
The Time Mechanic
16.03 22.08‘He's just a harmless hobbyist…’ Amber turned away from her screen, a grainy security-cam image…
“Upon a Time … Ever After”
"Upon a Time..." was inspired by the 1979 Manhattan kidnapping of Etan Patz - his story never…Scene iLate afternoon, the day after Thanksgiving, sunset, 1995. The living room of apartment 14E.…
The World is So Small
I can smell a child’s fear
several continents away.
It is burnt toast bird guano chocolate chip cookies.