Rogue Corn

Rogue Corn

My fav event as harvest season approachesis the rough seed that escaped the plots. If there’s a cornfield adjacent to another bedof   vegetables, you can count on imperfection, you can see stalks standing where they’renot supposed to be, the winds have ideas, seeds...
The Coyote Killers

The Coyote Killers

Howl somethingyou want heard, guaranteedyou’ll be hunted. Howl somethingsweet and it won’tmatter either. Someone will starta murder club builtfor your friends, holding contestsfor the most killed. They’ll shoot, yell,smoke you out ofyour own company, take a sharp...
German Hatchback

German Hatchback

In the sediment, years of beaten red granite, submissive to currentThe broken headlight lies.(The old woman, down off Highway 164, could tell youIt comes from a 20th-centuryGerman hatchback.Not that it matters much.)Ten feet under water, the wiresHave long forgotten...
Salvation Hill

Salvation Hill

I never knew why you waxed gravestones.I remember you young with pigtails. Then it started raining in the middle of AugustAnd everything that could scream was steaming.The wax melts, and looks like tears. You never got around to the Veterans Cemetery,Salvation...