Her Father Calls to Explain That Daughters Aren’t Easy
She was always a disappointment.
Mom said Dad came to the hospital with blue baby sneakers;
on seeing her pink hat through the nursery window,
he trashed them and wept.
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Childhood Homes
Where the bushes are now a house once was. See there—where branches are twisted together like skinny arms hugging air?
The Death of a Migrant Worker
My father died in the bathtub, his head banging against the stainless-steel handles. The blood from his head—useless now—poured out,
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Telephone Crew
Because the trees outside my mother’s cabin were so thick, the way she got the telephone was for an archer
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A Plumber’s Guide to Light
Top out is the best phase of new construction plumbing if light is what you’re after. If light is what