Author: ps pirro

• Cómo se Dice

  Despite tres años of high school Spanishand years of living among native speakers I cannot have a conversation with the crew that’s come to tend…

• 404

  They said the internet was forever but it turned out to have used itself up in a just a few decades, the digital decay a…

• Obsolete

  We heard it even with our earbuds in, the rumble that told us the water was coming, so much more of it and faster than…

• When the Plow Comes

  We knew it would be bad and yet we clung to stupid hope that it would somehow be okay, that someone would come to make…

• River Song

  Living this close I can sometimes hear the song of the river three streets over, two streets down, it happens so seldom that it seems…

• Elegy

  The cat slipped out when I wasn’t looking, found his way to the other side, I came upon him in a dream, sitting in a…

• Solstice 2024

  Maybe you woke at 2 a.m. or maybe you never made it to bed at all on the longest night of the year, you lit…

• Cold Moon

  The boss man’s boss man pleaded to his enablers stop us before we kill again, we do what we do because we can do nothing…

• Bonnie’s Soup

  And into the dwindling remains of Bonnie’s homemade soup is added a cup of orzo discovered in our pantry behind the jar of dried beans…

• Rumi & the Raccoons

  At the Thanksgiving table this year my friend told the story of the raccoons who took up residence in the enclosed space above his front…