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What Dad Said

We need to stop talking about it, we need to put some pants on.

What We Left Behind

The Others came in the light of day and splayed Father open.

Whatever’s Left of Normal

Design a way to kill those rats, and do it now, Fiori, do it now.

When Everything Changed

When the Flock Changed

She had yellow cat eyes that she insisted were also blond.

Where Birds Do Not Fly

Louise watched from the shadow. She was looking for somewhere to land.

Wife 22

Best-selling author Melanie Gideon reads from her novel Wife 22.

Wife 22

The light is like a benediction. My husband reaches for my hand.

Wife 22

We’re stuck floating around on the surface of our lives like kids in a pool.

Winter Birds

The nights she and Wade have sex she can’t do so without feeling guilty.

Wrapping Fable

At the core, a daughter is a self-reckoning emptiness.

You Cannot Lie about a Mountain

“Fuck you,” I said, but it was hard to say it with any meaning.

You Remember the Pin Mill

Her cheek was like a plum about to burst and you had to close your eyes.

You Said Eden Disappeared and Other Poems

As a child I wanted to behold the elusive squid, the patience of eels.

Your Ghost

She was painting a bedroom, trying to be a good mother, wife, Catholic.

Zee to A

Dr. Zee knows his son is struggling up out of some chemical fog.