The End of Pink

Copper Nickel: “Reading Drops of Water: Showing the Mysteries of the Visible World (1873) as Love Poem”;
Green Mountains Review: “The Saint Girl’s Sweetest Tortures” and “P. T. Barnum’s Fiji Mermaid Exhibition as I Was Not the Girl I Think I Was”;
Guernica: “Rituals of the Bacabs as the Strange Ca

which won the 2010 Elixir Press Antivenom Prize.

She has received research grants from the American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life.

My peacock watches with all 48 eyes.
He can do a trick called The Postmaster

Her poor little body
turned into nothing but a metaphor.

Peter would fill it at a fevered pitch, then, when your back was turned, pour it out to be filled again.

There is a little girl, maybe seven, fiddling with a tea set. Her mother inspects drapes for stains.

supportive communities at Ohio University, the Raccoon Creek Watershed Partnership, and the University of Central Missouri.

Sometimes the very old and lonely are looking for an opening.

gratitude to Peter Conners, Jenna Fisher, and Melissa Hall at BOA Editions for bringing this book into the world!