This is a collection of stories composed of a series of poems based on a month’s worth of Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Day.
Always Empty
“The thrill of the kill is there,
the electricity of bloodlust,
but iron helmets, visors
hide their eyes.”
A Gap Where You Used to Be
“Long, rectangular table.
Six chairs, all taken
but one—
yours.”
A Mutual Aching to Leave
“The display case filled with fudge,
hard candies my mom would like.
I consider buying them, before remembering
she’s gone.”
Odds & Evens
“A new year, another long day
corralling teenagers into
an English class reading a book
half of them won’t open.”
A Traveler’s Hymn
“He packed his bags and threw them back
behind the driver’s seat.
His destination was not known,
but still he headed east.”
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M. Espinosa 