The American Collective

We are bombing Libya. On the path ahead, two robins are dancing with each other, coquettishly, and now, dancing with me, too. Further ahead,...

The girls are out, showing a little skin. Lunar thighs, pelagic chests, deciduous eyes. All of it that fragile intimate hue. And their slow,...

In my late twenties, I was working two rather monotonous jobs. I fell into a pyrrhic sort of anomie, always exhausted and quick to complain ...

The sky is its thin, sepulchral hue. Clouds slide out of the west like the high hull of a Viking war boat. Her apparition crew composing the...

We have come to a threshold, maybe crossed over. Like gawky newlyweds. We are no longer the people we once thought we were, which is to say,...

AP photo of a protestor in Haiti I cannot see her face, but she is beautiful. Black skinned, muscled taut in fury. I can see her shoulder bl...