For Martha, the Last of Her Kind
You see me now, cold and still behind glass
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Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
A tanaga for my six-year-old self
Thank you Lord for the audacity
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read
Dissociation in Six Parts
I’m standing in my elementary school bathroom
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read
Ladies, Sharpen Your Fingernails
Hello and thank you for your purchase of DazzleBot: Prestige Edition, the only full- service home salon the size of a briefcase!
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Ripples in the Mirror
Every morning asks me / Whether or not to kill the ant
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Dear Nashville,
in my mind I am still / driving up and down murfreesboro rd
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Made Whole
I’m waiting in a large white room
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Brown-Eyed Susans
Ahead and years / Before us
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
lovers/strangers
I was not angry that you lied
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Monstrosity
abominable
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Distant Echoes
There is a lone blue heron.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Sistine
wonder whether they felt / green light
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read
I was a Microbiologist
Back then we autoclaved all the Petri plates
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Circle of Life
Two springs ago, a pair of robins tried to nest in a corner of my children's wooden playset.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read
The Grave Digger of York
Long ago in the ancient city of York Elias Bilby was sexton of St Martin Micklegate.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Scar Tissue
the stillness of / that moment
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read
A Long Time, A Slow Trust
One capsule of silver jubilee and I’m a twanging pony in the Texas heat.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Swamp Thing Just Wants to Teach a Man to Fish
If I've learned a single thing from the old trees it's to avoid power, yours or anyone else's.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Art History
“Which is yours?”
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Burial Rites
In my dream you became / Every grief I don't yet know how to name.
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