AFTER WE’VE COMBED THE ENTIRE BEACH

AFTER WE’VE COMBED THE ENTIRE BEACH

This is the easy part of the journey: our submarine still at Sunlight level, jellyfish bodies pressed flush against window glass. In this lifetime – we have just barely scratched the surface of the Atlantic, the tide vomiting us and its glories back against the...
A Star Falls on Mars

A Star Falls on Mars

            The sky was darker and redder than usual, making it a perfect day to grab water. My grandmother told me not to go to the river alone so there was Annenna beside me, swinging her arms.             “I received a message from Nikal yesterday,” Annenna said,...
Hadori, Jeju

Hadori, Jeju

Behind the backdoor of our house                           are leaves and dirt strewn across the gardenwe invented as a child, pecks                           of canola flowers and bushes sprouting unevenly.Trunks of the palm trees                           we used to...
The Light Remembered

The Light Remembered

Hypnagogic In the passenger seat, The haze of melancholy and The impressionism Of a drizzle-stippled windshield, Glad memories shining through Like brake lights, Until I stir and say, Do you remember the time— And you do. And you ask me in kind, As if fidelity Were a...