Mental Illness

Spring

Rattle / September 6, 2017

It’s not a tender season, after all. Those leaves are green enough to fuck you up. Those winds are strong […]

Rattle / September 4, 2017

dusk unties the laces of my shoes with every step I tug you by the wrist down the

Rattle / September 1, 2017

I started laughing in the Kmart fitting room and couldn’t

Rattle / August 30, 2017

in this land winning a lasting home.—“The Battle of Brunanburh,” tr. J.R.R. Tolkien Nothing should be this easy.—“Zoloft,” by Maggie

Rattle / August 28, 2017

Of course you didn’t know what you’d made of me. A blubbering focus, the frantic epicenter around which soft hands

Rattle / August 25, 2017

There had been no attraction, no surprise for fifty miles, just crows, Holsteins and stubble, and now, atop the only