A Sheer Drop of Three Thousand Feet
Catharina
Creeping Thyme
Death of a Blimp
Here’s a memory
Mars is not as dry as they told us
Nudie Mags
Of Medicine and Mexican Food
Our Whole History
Reasons to Read
Standard X-Ray Precautions
Tasting Menu
The Dancer
the whiteout
When I Say My Heart Is Full, I Mean It's Full of Ghosts
Catharina
L. A. Johnson
Beloved wife
Of Antonio Lemas
Died in Mendocino City
Jan 17 1890
Aged 43 years and 4 months
Peonies at the market, three to a bundle. You think to rest them on a stranger's grave. On hers.
An offering.
A weathered wood plank discarded across where the head would go. You clear it off.
The grass beneath it stays bent. Grass grows
beneath the beds of your beloveds, beneath your own bed.
How much time has passed since a loved one has been here?
A cathedral of absence. Home.
Her name in the mouth of no one but yours.
You arrange the flowers against the marble.
The headstone rises in pale light.