I wandered across three times. From its arched center, red roofs belowsprinkled by a giant. Birds circled a gray sky,…

sweet teller, you spin the bones of a good talebut it’s not for you to tell my lifewhen I’m dead.…

after Farnez FatemiFriends, let’s fishfor hope, gather itinto our nets. Store the best catchbefore we steer to shore.Loop a line…

after Danusha LamerisThere was that morning we drove past stone gates into Strážnice, the green Skoda’s muffler ready to drop, …

We brought her chrysanthemums. On Sunday mornings  I filled a tin bucket from the loose steel spigot,carried it down pebbled…