Flower Girl
General/Column February 5, 2018
At four she plucks impressions like petals and stows them in the wicker basket of her mind, only to fling…
As My Daughter Learns to Read
General/Column February 5, 2018
She scales the jagged cliffs of consonants, skims the plateaus of vowels, rappels down the edges of words to the…
Who Will You Be?
General/Column February 5, 2018
My bump is barely showing and I’m already wondering: Will you have my forehead and your father’s round face? Will…
Migration
General/Column February 5, 2018
of dark air—the starlings under thunderheads tumbling as one the flock chasing storms—this dark is not a doom this dark…