My favorite animal is the blue whale;I like that their hearts are as big as carsand how they communicate through song.I tell my mother how I’d like to be a whale,and she thinks it a bad omen.
In a Mirror, Dimly
When her hands would quake, it’s wasn’t fear;it was the start of the rapture. Sweet Christ,she recited Psalms like it was slam poetry.
Cricket came up with the name Moonshine Mountain, but she meant it like moonlight or like the speckled gray Paso Fino in the pasture that most just called Mooney. She thought it sounded pretty and that was always enough for Cricket. Darren and Benny weren’t aware of the name’s…