Hanataba
I wear the same mask around you as I do around everyone else, afraid if I let you see the real me, you will rip out your own roots just to disentangle yourself from me.
Read MoreHere There Be Fairies
There are fairies in the costume shop, of that much I am certain.
Read MoreSigns of Spring
They exchanged a series of signs which they had developed between themselves, more fluid and expressive than those used by their mother.
Read MoreWhite Like Lilies, Red Like Blood
I can't imagine too hard, I think, because then I'd break reality for everyone else.
Read MoreCherry Blossom Time (or, "Hanami in Osaka")
The second time you proposed, we both wept. Beneath the sakura—“our” sacred cherry tree—with salty kisses and breathless vows that after the war was over and you came back home, we’d get married, right there, amid the swirling, dancing drifts of palest pink and white.
Read MoreDefrosting
Behind me flowers spring up just to wither away as the coarse ground cuts up my clothes and skin. The soil’s not enough to keep life abundant.
Read MoreThe Woman in the Tree
The woman in the tree saw all of this. She rode the currents of the feelings that swelled around her constantly, she held them all in her mind with sympathy and love.
Read MoreDainty-Boned Vultures
Excuse my melodrama, but the Fairyfolk have been defamed—nay, disgraced—in print and color!
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