1 Fetch me your love Affection is the curl of my toe.

25 Ursula » Novella. When science finally destroyed all major diseases it came with a price: woman could no longer live past their fifteenth year. In the wake of this there was a huge mission to repopulate the earth which created dozens of orphans who were taken in by religious convents. Fox and Rabbit come from the house of St. Ursula and struggle to come to terms with there brief lives.

4 The Chandler's Daughters My father often told us: "The wick is like a vein. It is an organ that slithers underneath the surface of the clammy wax. It holds both the heat and the flame. It is the heart. It is the center." There were four of us, a strong even number—there was no center daughter, although secretly we all hoped we were his favorite child.

1Yew She is the gull crawling against a nude shoreline.

1Female Screening He has found the hawk hunting the rabbit.

1Cog The morning is godless, as I always knew it would be.

2Poem for Nicholas Hughes For Sylvia Plath's son, who like his mother, also committed suicide.

1To-morrow & To-morrow & To-morrow Pulling fingers underneath her skull and untying the braided knot of her brow.

1De Sade All universal moral principles are idle fancies Egalitarian revelations from your forever-lulled youthquakes falling asleep to your blasphemy in the countryside of night.

3Paper Had I been of another time I might have caught fireflies in the crevices of my unflossed teeth.