When I was fifteen I learned, from the passenger
seat of an interchangeable Toyota,

that driving was a game you could win
if you never stopped. Since then I had become...

Litany from the Driver's Seat

Gliding cormorants
& what togetherness must
be: winged time, clear
reflecting sky, rocks & stones
& pebbles & the glinting...

Tankas Written at Pebble Beach While Samantha Naps on her Towel

what other bones do we collect? none so intimate
as teeth I think but when my father met his age replaced
his hip with another my mother the physical therapist

convinced the nurse to smuggle the original joint out...

Rhiannon Briggs

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