The ice on the lake is so thick some truckers risk driving all 18 wheels across her glassy surface to save two hours, praying her back will hold their weight…
Afterwards, my mother said that my brother could have been someone else, maybe Michael Jordan. She said he was a much better role model, exemplifying all of the project’s requirements.…
When Kambili calls, I am in the kitchen making Egusi that has iru in it. I perch the phone on the rack and laugh heartily, but when she talks about…
Soapy water runs over my hands as I scrub the remains of lunch from the plates in the sink, and I think of you. I try to remember how you…
Before Nestled on the bottom of the ocean. Lightless. Black past zero—the blackest black. Me in a half lotus. Half because my lunar baby belly disappeared my lap. Half lotus…
I am one of the lucky ones. Four months into lockdown, no one in our household has gotten sick. We don’t work in health care or other sectors that face…
I’m trying to remember who you are again. Some of you, anyway. We were living in Austin. I was a grad student at the University of Texas, and you were…
I remember glimmers in the dark, bits of light on my grandparents’ farm on Pea Ridge in Barbour County. I remember pale foxfire veins that feed on the decaying logs,…
On the morning my husband of less than a year died, I woke to the sound of sirens coming from the street below. I fumbled around in the closet while…
My mother floats into the clouds and I am holding fast to her feet, anchoring her to the ground. We are in her room in the care home outside Dublin,…
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald…
after Cristina Rivera Garza There are several ways to tell the difference between a biologically male and female adult skeleton. One of them is the pelvis, which can give more…
Three bald women rear-end me. The driver springs over her convertible door, runs to my car, arms flung wide as though to embrace. I stumble out. Dazed. My door a…
Before we were married you told me you often dreamed of swimming, your lithe body moving fluid and weightless in the water, not sinking from the weight of your half-brokenness,…
