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Sisters
You’re getting older. I can see it now lying in your bed, my reflection warped in a makeshift drinking glass. I can’t know how many...
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An Instructional Guide to Saying Thank You
Overripe mangoes melt in wicker baskets strays sip from sprinkler head pools Nothing’s too pristine not the buildings or their...
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A Plastic Statue of Christ
It is Good Friday. We are sad and quiet and dark. In the midst of knees swollen from kneeling, standing, kneeling again approach altar...
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first home
just me in that endless house wandering through cold hallways up wide wooden steps there were ghosts in the back bedroom soft purple...
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Transformation
Under the moon, I shovel soil and sand with my hands. I claw. I consume with an arch in my back. I swallow the ground that buried you...
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Foundations
Through the infinite back door of my grandparents’ house, I remember believing in the sanctuary of stuff—the eternally cluttered— that it...
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War Is Over
This is a story of destruction. I remember feeling like I was floating eternally when you said goodbye. Sailing in a state of oblivion I...
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Purgatory
I don’t go to church like I used to. The tabernacle is locked and the pews are dusty with the dead skin and hair follicles of what I once...
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Ritual of My Sister
On the ride to the cemetery, winter had returned again, and our skin remembered its trauma through the open car windows. Your eyes opened...
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