Katherine Riegel

The Mississippi River ran backwards more than once. A real flight simulator—one pilots train in—   makes you feel like you’re flying, even though it’s only a screen in front and six hydraulic legs   simulating motion. A hummingbird hawk-moth’s wings beat eighty-five times per second. One summer night in 1975,   you believed—absolutely, without […]

What matters? The last of a species died lonely today and still the stars spun, like everything spins, helpless. They say we should not attribute human feelings to nonhumans   but isn’t helplessness universal? The car door helpless to stop before it crushes fingers,   the naked politician helpless to swing that thing between his […]

Spring has dropped purples and yellows like someone with so much abundance they’re careless of loss. Hot pink azalea bushes crouch round across lawns and I dream they wander, peaceful as cows but wiser. I’m not   from here, but even I know the movies get it wrong. No, I don’t believe everyone who voted […]