motherhood

Dead Deer

I found her on her side  in the mucky pond behind the house, bedded in…

THE RECYCLING AT ISAIAH GARDENS

Do not. Do not, I repeat, throw trash in the cans in front of Building…

We Were Warned

I remember every moment of my mother’s fury—rare, but terrifying—when she felt that her children…

Spaceship

The unmasked lead their gaggles of unmasked children into Target. They walk out pushing red…

Water

The day the baby arrived, it rained so hard the streets flooded and the taxi…

Concerning the Sea Stars

MONDAY 3:27 PM MONDAY 4:13 PM MONDAY 4:20 PM MONDAY 5:01 PM ~ TUESDAY 3:18…

Seasonal Affective Disorder

There’s a certain smell I associate with fall, a crispness that carries melancholy. These fleeting…

Basil

On those afternoons when I feel most fraught, broke as a joke, I breathe with the trees.  Yes,…

Unconscious

“I gift you two worlds, this dance, this arrival to yourself regardless of the thousand…

Prime Coats

In 2006, I sat with the physician in my pickup truck in the Baton Rouge…