The worst of it is the noise of them. The shouting, the scuff of sandal on stone, the scrape of bronze on the wood of the temple door. Hot summers and lean rains have bred discontent—crops dead in the...

Hi all! The year continues to be a difficult for me personally but I’m still happy to be able to help spread the news about some recent quee

You’re woven together with threads that stretch back for centuries, fingers of your forefathers tugging and tweaking the shape of you into place.

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

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Stone-sighted and gleaming, / the bones rattle / as you shake them

Any soup is a summer soup if you make it in July. Any thought can be magical if the right person is thinking it. But you know all this already. Just like you know any bone will break, splinter, and stab after it has been boiled; any tears worth their salt are worth saving; and

I was still rattly in my new skin when I ate the first one. He saw *it* lying there, and gave this cry like I had bitten his heart in two, so I did.

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