He Returned
War still stabbed his muscles into an open bleed as he vaulted to a father of five to children who only felt his horror from the slap of his […]
The Boy Born with a Pinhole Heart
Remember: he came out gasping with a pinhole heart dripping into the expanse of his neonate body. Heart cells reborn every solar cycle since he breathed in an incubator […]
Are We Alone?
On backyard grass in morning dewdrop, I scrawl Are We Alone? on the paper I tie to Sally, my homing pigeon, who vaults into a blooming blue sky. […]
The Cherry Blossom Planet
I swung by my ophthalmologist yesterday. She snapped a snapshot of my eyeballs laced in a pink permeation like that pink exoplanet reminiscent of a dark cherry blossom: that’s what […]
Dear Astronaut In Training,
remember when you fixed upon the rust world of Mars through your boyhood window, did you ever visualize your fatherhood frame would stand over those north pole water […]
Our Lunar Daughter
Our new moon daughter descended from an orbiting perch nine months ago. Gestation swapped, your zygote expanded in the cyclical sky. Those kicks you felt — moonquakes from our […]