i have 4738 unread emails in my inbox. an unearthly amount. like all the ghosts of my past send me messages, four to the hour.

the truth, however, is a little less poetic. the truth is that i need to unsubscribe from all these pesky listserves that constantly remind me when there’s a sale at babygap [...]

Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped outside of my body I would break
Into blossom.

James Wright
from “A Blessing”

i’m sitting in the evening, listening to the hum of the refrigerator and i know, i can just tell, this is the kind of day that needs a poem. that needs someone with deft and small hands to arrange stacks of words and make something tight and breathtaking. and since i’m not a poet, i [...]

jes hears yelp from front hall sometime around six in the morning. (jes is not normally movin about at six in the morning.) she walks groggily into the front hall where husband has laid out his uniform so as not to disturb jes, who, i may emphasize, is not usually awake at six in the [...]