Introduction

Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note

Poets love birds.
Fiction

The Painting and the Bear

She kneels on the bar floor with two kind men

Doe-eyed

There is a softness in me that I can't name or ruin.

Overexposure

There’s a car at the bottom of the river.
Poetry

"the swans" and "the chimney swifts"

Two weeks pass, then three.

Cat

Unit 100

"The Thing (1982)" and "The Fly (1986)"

Essays

Eastbound

A few weeks before I moved to the east side of the city, I saw a coyote in High Park.