Writing

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER PHOTOGRAPHS My mother and sisternear an old black seventiesChevy. My sister in anest between my mother'sarms. You can just seecertain parts of my mother,like a branch in…

MY MOTHER AND THE BED No, not that way she'dsay when I was 7, pullingthe bottom sheet smooth.You've got to, sayinghospital corners I wet the bed much laterthan I should.…

THE WOMAN WHO LOVES MAPS aches for the oldones, dusky as anabandoned ghost townwhere the woodenpier is driftwood.She doesn't wantlongitudes andlatitudes, favorsroads mutable asa bracelet madeof sand she canwrite an…

FOR ME THE HOLOCAUSTSTARTED IN '33IN A SMALL VILLAGE I was in a classand the teacher saidI hear we havea Jew pig in this class.I shook. He saidI'm going to…

she was alwaysgood at gettingwhoever was nearher skin, so aswim under theearth's skin forthirty-two yearstakes her nottoo far fromMemphis. Somemonths she juststretched out,listened totree roots grow,let undergroundrivers lull her,worms circleher…

Sure it showsoff what every-one is hot forher to show off,outlines eachcurve of herbreasts andthighs, neon-izes her asslike slicker, givingher lips thatmoist, I-want-youglow when reallyshe just wantsto curl up ina…