Umbrella
my first job was at a burger joint …
Morning in East Wallingford
Morning in East Wallingford,
not to be confused with
Wallingford proper,
down the road
a few miles
here in Vermont:
a bifurcated village.
If the Point Were to Tell it Straight, Not Slant
In our first session, I told my tutor how much I used to love to take my siblings to the park when they were little. He said Oh, so you had to help raise them?
Wolf
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break
or barter but my life.
—Diane di Prima
Night View, Base Camp, East of Kyiv
There aren’t as many stars tonight
As once there were before
When the Monsters Come Out
Nighttime is when the monsters come out,
With their claws and their jaws
That gnash all about.