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a disappearance beside the yatsushiro sea

Margaret Morri was the name Yoshikane Araki used when referring to an apparition who squeezed under the doorway or window mesh or rose between barrack floorboards to haunt the hot desert air above his straw mattress.

Terrarium

I’ve made the pitcher on my table human again.
Her elegant white neck, belly slightly bloated
with flowers.

No Girls Allowed

A blue-painted drawbridge. A frog pond moat. A two-story clubhouse on its own island deep in the vine-strangled woods, six bear cubs peering out from the wooden slats of windows and a lone green door.

(re)peat

The spears, the spires I aspired to be as reaching because what
did you know about tapers.

Oyster

Out of oxygen, algae, and a grain of calcium carbonate, the oyster came to be.

Wolf Lessons

There are wolf objects scattered throughout my house: a canis lupus Beanie Baby named Howl, a carved wooden ornament, a snowglobe with a wolf pup...

Suddenly

Suddenly is canon in folklore the way it’s canon in truth: the world changes.