Perhaps Rose was right and she was being, as her cousin put it, “ingloriously cruel.” Or was that vainglorious? Vaingloriously?
Didn’t matter. She wasn’t really listening. And Hien was a prick, had always been such a prick, and … more »
Barefoot
The organizer said, “Okay,
everyone gather at this place
at this time–pretend
it’s a birthday party. Then head over
to the creek when it turns dark;
there will be a small boat
to take you to the … more »
speaking in tongues
misinterpretation ghosts-back,
attempts to reincarnate the broken language
of Jaden’s tongue-twist reverberation—
murmur the revenant-named co bac
mispronounce it twice as fast go back
diaspora synth-talk—
ghost-linguists mess up scrabble tiles—
v tn m s ngl … more »