Room, Author at ROOM Magazine

In the Absence of Wings

Posted by Room | Jun 28, 2005 | Fiction, Reading Room

As she sails over the barbed wire fence, a hot dry wind behind her, the cow thinks of birds. How useful wings might be at a time like this. Her spindly legs crumple and pink udders squash as the round of her girth meets the hard...

Wedding Anniversary

Posted by Room | Jun 28, 2005 | Poetry, Reading Room

He has eaten so much duck that he cannot talk to his wife the memory of the duck skin slips past his tongue to catch and clutch in his throat while a small bit of duck meat is stuck in the back molar of his closed mouth and the...

He Wants Me to Describe It

Posted by Room | Dec 20, 2003 | Poetry, Reading Room

The winner of Room’s 2002 poetry contest, judged by Joelene Heathcote. My friend wants to know what I think of when I panic. I pause in front of lit shop windows of long wrap-around scarves, beaded necklines and Indian...

A Visit

Posted by Room | Sep 18, 2002 | Poetry, Reading Room

The second-place winner of our 2001 poetry contest. at Christmas I stare and stare at your daughters who look so eerily like you. your older girl seems all right, I know you’d be glad. she’s a regular kid, plays with ponies,...

Pink Lilies

Posted by Room | Sep 18, 2002 | Poetry, Reading Room

The winner of our 2001 poetry contest. You are a woman who lusts after pink lilies, the open mouths of inlets blurred by mist. Nothing is ever simple. A man who says he loves his wife but runs his hands over you. You stamp and...