Poems excerpted with permission from Indelible In the Hippocampus...

Stella Miss leans toward me to ask if I know any scary stories....

The Portrait This evening, its face rigid as though it had had a stroke....

The hospital wardis dying of an unknown thirst.A time when even oxygenseems to hiss cruellyinto the......

A scream never ends. It triesto be kind, but our hatred keepscoming between us. The night......

This evening, its face rigidas though it had had a stroke.A large owl burrows deep into......

The little girl’s hand is made of darknessHow will I hold it?The streetlamps hang like decapitated......

Sialkot 1969 Anytown, Anytime Silk of girlhood adolescence, womanhoodraw thread snapped he was the one who......

It takes much to be empowered:you must feel the lavaspewing from your breath,rising from the volcanothat......

The television seeps through the walllike yet another nightmare.Somebody’s crying as usual, tomato ketchupoozing past a......