It came to him him that ten of his thirty face­book friends had breast can­cer and were run­ning run­ning races. ~ Margaret Benjamin is the author of “Turtles and Magic,” a chap­book. She lives with her part­ner in Fresno, California, where she avoids going outside.

Ended up in SF headed back to BART after mid­night — girls in their teens and twen­ties in tight shiny dresses, high heels, makeup, care­fully coiffed and sexy a few hours before but now stum­bling, hair­dos com­ing apart, dress seams split­ting on the heav­ier girls, the skinny girls with pim­ples in back­less dresses, shiv­er­ing in the cold: […]

Nurse Normal “Nurse nor­mal,” the swain says every time the baby cries. “Like the cows do.” Nurse nor­mal with the naive genius of the squat. Nurse the merely dumb who can nei­ther mum­ble nor squeak. Nurse the bland and faint who wake to the scent of scones and mus­sels, who hate you and your mam­maries, who have nothing […]

Scott Wright: Impact trauma is a term that we use to dif­fer­en­ti­ate dif­fer­ent things that might have caused the birds to appear the way they do when we con­duct the necropsy, which is an autopsy of ani­mals. And what we look for are spe­cific appear­ance of organs and blood and so forth that might be where […]