The bridge buckles
when the canal
is moon-flecked—
wooden slats slicked
with loss.
Slant of rain, then sleet. Soon, snow.
The sudden shiver of your fingers
wisping through mine.
You, newly dead—opposite
as ever. Clumsy.
Timbered curves echo the lift
your specter gifts me.
The arch’s underbelly blackens
mourning’s slate morass—
brackish morays in a twist
like the tattered mists of ghosts
who eat my warm rolls
and honey, drink my tea,
then leave,
laughing.
writes tiny stories and advocates for animals. Her work has been long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for Best American Short Stories, Best Microfiction, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. She has stories in Best Microfiction 2024 and Best Small Fictions 2024, and forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2025.
Her writing also appears in 100 word story, Atlas and Alice, Bending Genres, The Citron Review, The Disappointed Housewife, The Dribble Drabble Review, Flash Boulevard, Gone Lawn, New World Writing, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Midway Journal, Milk Candy Review, Mslexia, The Offing, Tiny Molecules, trampset, and elsewhere. She lives in New Mexico.
