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Owen’s head throbbed, his ears ached, and an anvil sat on his chest.

She asked, “What’s the weirdest thing you can do with your body?”

She began to see the word, or traces of it, wherever she went.

He came into town with his big red pen and began revising us.

What’s the harm? Will you fight even the healing powers of love?

I waited and waited, rethinking first sentences in my sleep.

The time a man kissed my hand when we met. Though he’s been dead for decades now, I still feel the kiss.

You retell the story and I wait for my cues, when to smile, nod.

Love speaks in silence, on behalf of lovers too tired for words.

Her family was still poor and hungry and scared.

I wanted my love to be everywhere, then love began to bite through me.

Salt provokes, tenderizes. Your wounds, your dinner.

“Leaving for war, Hayes wept. He didn’t just cry; he wept...”

Is that coffee you have, or the hell of fusion in your cupped hands?

My lust works like the tides pulling in reverse, controlled by a simple ballast.

I have so many T-cells I’m afraid of forgetting their names.

Men are so delicate, must be given many portals. I try to be game.

You linger in the dimming aftermath, grayer and fainter than a breath.

Beyond her ampleness, he stands a small man vanquished.

Nothing likes to be abandoned, no one likes to be compared.

On a morning in November words appeared at the end of my pen.

David Hinton

If life was exchanged, who is to say it flowed one way?

The pen is mightier than the sword in the fretwork of a poet’s language.

My mother is queen of buttons. She shows off the prized ones.

For the president’s arrival they shot two dogs making love on the tarmac.

Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.

I tell my sister what I didn’t tell my father, I love you. Please, don’t die.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.