Things change. Let’s just start there.
Never more evident
than the day you lunged
for the yellow pickleball bouncing away
(in your head a magnificent shot) and hit
ITS NOT HOW U BOWL, ITS HOW U ROLL, or so
says the sign outside the of the tiger bowl in madrid,
iowa. after plaza lanes caught fire and burned everything,
Read More#
Backfield set,
5 wide.
#
What the viewer sees in Munch’s woodcut The Trial By Fire:
in the wrinkles of her dress,
between the lines.
Read MoreI practice my poses in five-inch clear plastic heels. My parts: held on, held up with rhinestone joists. Glued on. Bulletproofed. My flaws are in hiding—behind a shirred hypotenuse bedazzled. Something borrowed from Helen of Troy—bluer than the eyes of men—who’d kill for me.
Read Morebecause it’s the gold standard, what all athletes use, but doc’s words only echo in my mind as mom and i look at the x-ray of my shredded acl ligament torn on two ends like frayed sidewall string. i still taste wet turf pellets from when i collapsed,
Read More