words a head start i breathed with him barely sipping the pale air baba yaga’s hut they come to me for the stupidest things. women throwing things into fires on any given night whether the moon be bright and fat or a shadow of herself dead rabbit dora found a rabbit near the tip Dora it is not a friendship, not a business transaction, not a love affair, not a baby. For Molly Some things are worth more than a risky fuck Scraps I pause to think of all the things I could do to regulate my nervous system Untitled (Mother) sea, ever changing, ever constant. what do you know about mother?you cannot know mother. the boat on windy days the sea-wives would be busy with the boats. Wrong but not wrong I thought I was bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. At last we are drunk for the first time in the foothills of cadair idris fresh out of school where for five years they called us lemons and dykes. the dance one day the woman awoke feeling strange. the woman once there was a woman who lived alone “tell the story of a scar” he had always been gifted at sports of all kinds / mugwort do not underestimate the space i will claim. my house will have no sign you will not find it by name or number. untitled (Balatonalmádi) it is the day the spiders hatched. You are the tiny person, the cupped hand, and every moon A tease, a glimpse, a late bloom. An idea of what you might become. self-portrait with ghost They hadn’t spoken in 40 years. bone stories i could tell it so many ways. geese once more with feeling:[bellowing] you do not have to be good Can’t wait to see you Your fucking needs you fucking bastard Freedom It is the risk-taker in you that I fell in love with the sea-wives «mother doesn’t give a shit.» the landing branta came that night. paddled right up beside her in a tree-trunk canoe, offering a name. The Story of the Nether Largie Stanes “Mooooooon!” Earth would call up into the darkness. “Gealllaaaach! Come down here and talk with me. the spider the woman remembered the swivel of shod hooves on the dusty road, and running. the port the woman brushed the wet sand from her dress. the pair walked on in silence dreams i dreamed my namei dreamed my motheri dreamed i was a rotting log the fog the woman walked south along the high cliff path Our season How you loved to tell that tale. How I loved to hear it.