Dust
“Daddy always loved the lake,” remarked Jelisa Lu. “He’d swim in the buff every morning at dawn. I’d hear him bellow, ONE-TWO-SIX!!! Then a big fat splash.”
“Queen of Swords”, “Claws”, “In Her Voice”, “Hunger”, and “Sometimes a Bird Outside”
He thought she was the Queen of Swords. She didn’t see herself like that, more like the Queen of Cups perhaps.
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Bedding a Ghost
Sshhhck.
She has no idea where she is. Surrounded by blackness, like floating in a void.
Unwritten Rule
There’s a rope between me and the edge of the dock,
there to keep people from falling or jumping in.
The Pripyat Marshes
Some marsh plants have hollow stems, could be used as straws. The villagers would have known this, he says, could have taken a few on the march to the marshes, or better yet, pulled the pith from a young twig to make it hollow.
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“Just Two Girls Revisited” “After the Hottest Heat Wave in Earth’s History””Just Two Girls Revisited” & “After the Call When You Learn Your Friend, Sick at Least a Year, Has Brain Cancer”
A bandaid on the road to stop the spread,
dogs process through their noses: goose turds, a seagull feather,
a flock of cancer cells flaps past.
Pulling Out an Ace
In kindergarten, you had a boyfriend, who sat on the bus next to you and held your hand
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The Knife
The Johnsons had no pretensions that they from were a class down from even my working-class family, which was not saying much where we came from, except that, behind their backs, everybody called them ‘white trash’.