Suturing A shrew moves in moonlight,tracking across the broken snow. You have felt this small, a lone heart pounding in […]

Suturing A shrew moves in moonlight,tracking across the broken snow. You have felt this small, a lone heart pounding in […]
Migration As you grasped the bony curve, lifting it from the riverbank into the shifting, slanting light, it became […]
Ally The day you ran from the moose, lurching off the trail to crouch behind trees, everything […]
Signature We’ve seen them too, the striations. Those lines in the rocks, glacial grooves cut mostly parallel like cambium, […]
Ground Does it bother you, the grinding? Teeth marks left on bones. The tideline’s broken shells. The ground, subducting. We […]
Handler It was winter, and snowdrifts covered the frozen fens. Dogs, harnesses, gangline, sled. In a rush of steaming yips […]
Termination Dust You stared in silence at the MRI, at the shadowy cavitation of a patient’s brain. It was […]
Affirmation When the sockeye come in, choking the riffles with their crimson bodies, flashing their fins with effort and […]
Pingo Look with me, it said, across this ice-patterned ground, past the frost boils, the polygons, the scouredshield rock. Relax. […]