I name it with an image: an orchard where the black plums tilt and shake, shudder aubades to their boughs, then fall. I wait below to catch what drops, unwelt…
I carried two in the cup of my right hand like a set of testicles, soft and heavy for their size, warm from pavement relieved of the afternoon sun. I…
1. You appeared quickly, the way a bowl appears on a lathe from a block of wood. The ward is a hard place to spend your first hour. Birth named…
Header photograph © Skye Savage.
1. I taught you to Skype, to Facetime, to Zoom, to singe our words with technology & smudged screens, the shape of your eyes a surprise through the two-way mirror,…
of the rain slapping an abandoned couch along the Cle Elum River. Sometimes the feeling is lapping; sometimes the feeling is removed. I wanted laughter. There was none. The archeologist…
Did Sisyphus ever imagine the toil of carrying orange trees up this slope each season, their roots heavy with water, leaves delicate in such a foreign clime? Forty-six varietals of…
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風の電話 When Itaru Sasaki lost his cousin in 2010, he decided to build a glass-paneled phone booth in his hilltop garden with a disconnected rotary phone inside for communicating with…
