Grappling arms of the harkened underbrush threaten tyranny of a patrolled tightness sometime in the Now. I hear a battle cry beckoning from the borderlands and a sobbing from the…

So there’s a bunch of talk in the Pages and Paint online workshop I’m taking part in on inspiration. What is it? Where does it come from? And how can…

Borrowed rays seep through twisted sails of dreamy blue, tangled up in the clothesline. You and me we like a bee, nibblin’ on uncle’s muscadine vine. Worm dangles on hope’s…

Everything seems to have happened all at once. I began grad school. I’m working with a new teacher next year, so there’s a lot to do in the classroom to…

Marbles blue picked from bush heel turn, cooking is child’s play. Sneaky dough-eating, flour-breathing puff dragons caught from the eye in the corner of mom’s eye pinching the runts out…

The last shot on a roll of film, taken quickly just before bird catches flight.

Since my conception I have been growing into this covering armor of flesh. From the beginning, pieces of me were chosen, mostly without my consent. I am a caucasian female,…

Blackberry, blackberry come purchase your sweetness from the sun, pleasures flicker on blackened bones, thorns rend secrets sworn. Tongues cut from frothing mouths joined as purple ink slices the page.…

from a distance the saturation of color struck me cold the problem with being numb is that everything is numb. until you are grabbed by the hand, laid in a…

You could cradle the infant once and one thousand times never long to return for another embrace. One thousand scraped knees I could get, but not one Band-aid or kiss…