Misgiving Emotions are fleeting, but leave shadows in their wake. They follow stalk-eyed, peering through magnified lenses–watching as you undress. the folds of clothing fall in crumpled heaps and the voices slither from them, drumming the ear like fingers on a table. waiting patiently…

I’m an aunt, a dog mom, an anarchist following in my mother’s footsteps, and a writer. I live in St. Louis. Our summers boast the kind of humidity that’s good for fostering irises and spider ferns and discussions about the merits of dry heat versus…

I’ve never been to Kansas Or been swept up in a wind. I’ve never seen Loch Murington Or had my collar pinned. But neither place is near to me And neither method known For taking my heart dear to me Or riding a cyclone.

Death never has been my favorite song, and now I know why. With all due respect, Cat, I do not like the idea Of nothing.

I know of the place grasp the times but not the places little of their times Russian Jews my grandparents came to America as part of the diaspora From where, precisely remains unknown to me ‘country of origin’ Russia – imprecise vastness the only clue…

She watched from the treeline in the heat of that summer evening, a strange ochre colored beast with cotton ears and short front legs – white, like she was wearing stockings. In my lethargy, I watched back as she crept closer, and wondered of my…

The cats in the yard sleep in the sun, stretched out where everyone can see. The cats in the yard climb on cars and chase bugs across the parking lot, without a second guess. The cats in the yard move through their world with complete…

There’s a better place than here, I said. It’s at least twelve times prettier, And it has twelve days in every week. There are twelve rainbows after every storm Instead of, maybe, only three. The hourglasses are twelve hours long, I reminded him, Just like…

(don’t worry, I know the word. It’s clever, get it?) I often wonder, (get it now?) more now than when things were comfortable If I went to get groceries, but instead of going back to an apartment, in a city that feels cramped despite its…

The transformation came so fast At a warehouse party moving dancing laughing Shoved and pushed to the floor Stench of death hit before the ferocious gnawing Tried flailing couldn’t move couldn’t grab couldn’t claw – all numb hands stopped working Tried screaming couldn’t speak couldn’t…