Water Spell A crocodile waits on the far sandbank. I wade through waves, while my beloved casts a water spell, a verbal shield to flank...

The barrel stave was riven where she drank. Knots nestled, she lay on the cooling board a trestle made of evenly sawed planks. I’d built...

Three ships sailed on a sea’s soft swell, a small sea, but one full of wrecks. In those wrecks, drowned men, their spent bones and from...

I Steep path, up the limestone stair, sediment and sand hardened to bedrock, yet porous. Groundwater flowing through, that reinvents the...

The more I died, the more I came to life. In quicklime quickened, I returned as breath the way a cut releases from a knife. My blood had...

In 5/8 time, we row toward our demise. Rachmaninoff supplies the oars, the boat the waves, the craggy cliffs, the leaden skies. All we...