

Encounterings
Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths...

antiquity
if & when I am no longer mortal

Bird Banding
On the phone she’ll tell me stories about shorebirds which breed in warmer marshland winters and still cross the continent...

Assiduously
This morning, strolling soddenly down Harmon street, the rain became a sudden shield; with sudden clarity I felt calamity dismissed...

apricots & shallots
I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...

as we made to leave the bagelry
Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. we moved through the sentence of the crowd, its fork-plate...

To Be Laid Out
Nina Djukic’s story won first prize in the Synapse storytelling contest nonfiction category. There are things we cannot know until...