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Category: Hybrid

Hybrid

Hungry Ghost Moon of July

Let these words here welcome the ghosts. Lay sentences down like amulets upon a columbarium. 

–Rob Merrit, “Hungry Ghost Moon of July” Continue reading Hungry Ghost Moon of July

psalteryandlyreJanuary 31, 2022January 18, 2022
Hybrid

Safe

Light-shot. A chain of lives / Just like elephants, or midges. Continue reading Safe

psalteryandlyreOctober 26, 2021February 6, 2022
Creative Nonfiction, Hybrid, Poetry

Corona Way

The sea squirt is born with a primitive brain and one eye. It cruises the ocean, and when it finds a surface to fasten to, the squirt eats its own eye and brain. Without movement, it no longer needs them. Continue reading Corona Way

psalteryandlyreMarch 1, 2021February 11, 20211 Comment
Hybrid, Poetry

feast

feast of a million small creeks Continue reading feast

psalteryandlyreApril 20, 2020April 19, 20201 Comment
Hybrid

The Right Sky

I have cultivated shadows / that never came to fruit. Continue reading The Right Sky

psalteryandlyreDecember 23, 2019December 5, 2019
Creative Nonfiction, Hybrid

How To Quilt Memories: Instructions For My Mother

Step 1: Cut as many large sections as you can from my six nursing school uniforms, blue-and-white seersucker dresses with white cotton aprons buttoned to the waistband. Continue reading How To Quilt Memories: Instructions For My Mother

psalteryandlyreNovember 4, 2019November 1, 2019
Hybrid, Poetry

Two Poems

my secret / footprints, / dark blue / hard metallic Continue reading Two Poems

psalteryandlyreAugust 13, 2018August 10, 2018
Hybrid

WE HAD TO LEAVE

It came to be widely believed that we were Something’s experiment, in which case the stars and the trees and the grass and the birds knew everything we wished to know. Continue reading WE HAD TO LEAVE

psalteryandlyreJanuary 29, 2018January 28, 2018
Hybrid

Eveningtime

I will reach into the clock, my hand through it like water Continue reading Eveningtime

psalteryandlyreSeptember 25, 2017September 25, 20172 Comments

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