The Season of Daughters

The daughters wake for the first time on his front porch and he will never know where they come from. The first daughter hefinds is naked, trembling, and white as paper. She does not cry. When he picks her up she is so small it is like holding an egg that is larger...

The Woman Who Eats Soil

What can the unfortunate insect do if it is found wanting in weight? A pill-bug rolls into a bead of silent news. The damselfly can bend a petal back without leaving her mark. Trickster. There is a woman named Hao Fenglas who cupped soil to her lips for over seventy...

Pins & Needles No. 54: Caroline Cabrera

No. 54: Caroline Cabrera Q. I’m awed by your word pairings – “goat electrons” and “woolen periscopes” are a few that spring to mind. Why do the agrarian and the scientific make such compelling poem-mates? The agrarian and the scientific, to some extent, provide two...