“Recuerdo: Bare” & “Recuerdo: La migra”
byRecuerdo: Bare Once I walked in on my father undressing watched as he tugged his underwear and jeans down his lean light-complexioned thighs For what either one of us could…
Poetry
Little Falls
by“Bring along a new novel with you some time, will you, only please not one of those modern ones.” “What do you…
Instructions for Immersion
byThe process is simple. You should bury yourself in the night like someone entering the jungle naked, like a child trying to walk the last solidity of water, the lakes…
Conjuro for the Lonely Daughter
byI drink wine that has turned. I listen to water that drips from the upstairs neighbor’s balcony. The hum from the Heineken sign we’ve only used once or twice pulses…
Gift Rosary
byI bring you along the way heat lightning brings the thunder. The brunt & squander of it. Blank charity of a tree awning against the storm of midsummer. Mud the…
Three Minutes
bySurgeons for the Jacobite s and English at Culloden, needed three minutes to h ack through a trashed arm. Time enough to jam econ o with the Minutemen, or for…
After the Suicides
byWe had to go on without you, rise to work, open the checkbook and balance the funds, there was laundry to be bundled to the basement, shoved in the washer,…
Bloodletting
byOn black nights we drive southwest an hour-fifty on I-80, find the pockets of wild pocked enough to see the stars. This is the land that milked us safe passage…
Drift and Current
byMy father wakes at dawn to complain about the eggs. Every yolk is a microscope he can’t see through. Nothing any longer is urgent. Now new tangles and we adjust…
“Fall in the Absences” & “Pittsburgh, North Hills, 1960”
byFall in the Absences There are many winds the day cannot discover, many lying quiet in the archives, many unnamed. Dawn might rend the blue expanse; but noon-rumpled clouds have…