doors open because that's what they're built for but hearts only get exposed in an accident. In each case, we have to decide whether to...

to leave, sweetheart so that you can come back to me and tell me that the world has dark corners that you have stood in so that I don't...

dearest Claire, I write to you. these days are a raft of bombs, a choir of seagulls, a murder of darkest winged beasts but all I really...

they all love to tell us to slow down so we (delicately) pack our lives into soft old bags like our insides live in our outsides old bags...

it's when I cry that oh, I feel my center unfold but that makes me more vulnerable, yes? the unfolding is the shell breaking and the...

here’s your present, I told you and I held your hand as we walked out into the desert and stood there feeling our skin blaze, fires at...

he wears thick dark frames, his pale overwashed shirt hanging limply over his thin body as he hunches over his soup watching as it grows...

before you scatter me on the surface of the sea, just know that I wept for you for years, like my mother did for her own father (she...