Maybe it was the wine, or maybe it was the soft buzz of excitement to finally be alone together, but there was a palpable frisson between them—their elbows brushing, their fingertips bristling, one Nadine resting her chin on the other’s shoulder. A sweet heat came off the Other Nadine as she twirled her fingers into Nadine’s hair….
Read MoreMy great-grandmother had been dead for years when my soul fled. I searched days for my soul, going back and forth between our old haunts, the places we hid in, cried at, crawled into. When I finally found my soul I asked, can you return?
Read MoreAn emerald sting in your eyes makes you shudder-blink.
Yellow is a lift of the sky. Red is the smoke of memory.
Green is the lung emerging from water. All you see is blue.
Read MoreI have always wanted to make a children’s book, but stories for children don’t seem to come these last few years. Perhaps because I am a thousand years in and cannot remember what innocence is. I’d have to work harder at clearing the wreckage out of my turtle-heart to open it for that kind of business…
Read MoreFrom an early age, I felt called to help safeguard our seas, and those who rely on them. As ecology focuses on the interconnected relationships between life forms and their surroundings, so too does my work.
Read Moreyou’re spinning let me steady you.
once upon a forest a girl wandered deep into the veil
of green led by the sound of rabbits
