GhostIn the middle of the afternoons she lays out her dead lover's clothes on the bed: a green plaid jacket, white t-shirt, dark blue denim jeans with holes at the heels and at the knees. A heavily broken-in pair of snea…

Goldfinch There was a thwunk on my half-open window and the bushes rustled. I ran out and parted the gently swaying branches to find a goldfinch, its small chest heaving, beak open, its…