I had been out for a walk when I came upon a small child shuffling along the dirt road that ran from the beach to our new neighborhood...

this is a tale of love… between a man and his property it's filled with ambiance: jasmine breeze, jonquils the twist is the scar of shame...

Stefan picked the book from the table by the register. The Hunger of Ned Greaves, Poems by Peter Liu. He opened to the middle and began...

Near the sea steps she inexplicably took his hand and began to run buildings that had not been rebuilt, the streets ambling into autumn...

In this country it has found the loophole in the system and makes a home in it. And when it breaks down I tinker the spark plugs until...

Sister, do you know I have your jade bracelet, the one you swore was lucky, that you said saved you that time you almost drowned?

On Thursday afternoons, Stephanie and Carol visited their friend Gia. They went every Thursday because Gia had ALS...

I read the poetry of convicts now that I am ex-, & letters from a pen pal reminding the inside never leaves me, has its own beauty, its...

I didn’t like playing Legend of Boggy Creek. Leonard was always the Fouke Monster, and our cousin Odie and my little brother Jack would...

My brother and I could not build our father like models on the kitchen table covered with pages of The Detroit News...

Although the channel was off limits, he was steering there. For the tip jar to fill, they had to see whales...

hunger // hung as excess // twenty-one frames // all men // all white // but one //

Just last Sunday el padre felt the keen appeal the rites had always had, especially when nailing himself, in a manner of speaking, upon...

The roads circling the mall confuse me even when I’m not high. Kick-off isn’t for another three hours, but drivers are still burning down...

It was late October and the woods were filled with hunters so I put on a fluorescent coat and tied a shock of blue cloth around...

Here is the rising of the vanished fifteen million mink, some luscious brown and ebony, others snow white or just raw flesh.

Eileen arrived at the only medical center in McCloskey, sixty-seven hours after her daughter’s accident...

I’m sitting in the Meadows while a western breeze blows the smell of sun-warmed earth and fresh cut grass. In the distance...