I am wearing layers and do not shiver Thin light. You expect me to kneel down and put my head on the block. Legend: Anne Boleyn was given the mercy of a sharp sword, and skill, a swift blow....

      A Few Regrets He was from somewhere close to inhospitable – the north of Russia, maybe. His act involved tearing guests from middle aisles and inserting them into backless...

      Hallway I can’t imagine how it must have been: my sudden, sticky fists, my turbulence, my fretful sleep. The constant interruptions, the mess, the uncontrollable outpour of love...

    Adoration in the Catalina Foothills Below this crest of stillness in a mid-winter evening of hard frost and grim-wrought gray, I’m an indecent animal, dying sadly in the briefest...

    Qin The pairs of passing seagulls echoed each other. Egrets (in twos) watched their shadows from the shore. Last night my lover brought me oysters on ice cold and sharp with salt and...

    Melon Picker Death touched your feet with its wing. It felt how you cut the cord, carried their boulder warmth from the lip of the leaf to the gut of the bowl. Every time the wind...

  The Bloody Key I. He calls it love.  She thinks he must know what love is.  She is green and thin and has never encountered love. He brings her flowers which turn the air yellow with pollen....