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What You Mistook as Ultimatum

Wrung taut & tender at the soft play of fingertips, we breathe desires. Laughter takes refuge in bodies no longer coaxed to move. Nature becomes a thought.

Whatever’s Left of Normal

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

What’s Happening

Where will we go and how will we steer when the cars are gone?

When I Lose and Other Poems

Re: murdering democracy, oiling the shore, shearing the rain forest.

When the Enemy Is Illiterate

Make yourself the site of purposeful failure. Take the never-again path.

White Butterfly

Across sage flats, tundra, and bleeding hearts, she escapes.

White Moon Rising

I never actually existed. I didn’t know it at the time, but it’s clear as day.

Why I Don’t Want to Live Forever

I make a point of smelling the lilac every day that first week in May.

Why I Have Decided to Live

Because I can love every small thing.

Wild Snow

My job requires me to make things disappear like a Vegas magician.

Winnipesaukee and Other Poems

No one was awake and I was hungover young as clean as a piano.

Winter 1940

You have your apron on under your coat. We’ve got each other.

Winter Missive

I feel unnatural, half a human face smothered in deep light.

Winter Solstice and Other Poems

Yes, Sweetness, a white shadow shimmers on the X-ray of the future.

Winter: Tonight: Sunset

I stop and look at the sky. Suddenly: orange, red, pink, blue, green, purple.

Wintercearig Waltz and Other Poems

You and the cat wish I were baking pumpkin pie and we were happier.

Wives

Her mother singing out the window at trucks slamming the other way.

Wood Ducks Again

I hike, I bike, I tap at this keyboard. I survive—and I’m still an old man.

Words for My Father from Salmon, Idaho

The world smells brand-new crisp the way an ax cuts fire wood.

Worksong

No one else ever seemed to mind working side-by-side a murderer.

Writing in October

The slow-falling leaves contain the space of the story I’m pursuing.

Writing It Down

There were so many tired, frayed words thick in the air around her.

Wyoming Skies

A new Wyoming photography portfolio from Twister Marquiss

Wyoming Spaces

A new Wyoming photography portfolio from Twister Marquiss

Wyoming, Summer 2010

Twister Marquiss

Yard Mercies

A bunny the size of a teacup feasts in the clover, ears lit up in salt-pink light.

Yard Sale and Other Poems

Year of the Great Voyage

Our eyes searched for the island, but ahead there was only overcast.

Year’s End

At Pompeii the little dog lay curled and did not rise but slept the deeper.

Yet and Other Poems

No more laughing like the waves. No more ocean of words to drink from.