Author: Jennifer MacBain-Stephens

  • Vector

    Vector

    I’d be careful, carrying those secure, refrigerated, code locked boxes in the trunk, the dry ice filled to the brim, I’d pretend I was in the movie Mad Max.     I’d look out for spies, for bio terrorists, for anarchists. I’d wear hard clothes, not leather but fake leather. I’d wear sunglasses but look…

  • Little Fifteen

    Little Fifteen

    She wants to see with your eyes. She wants to smile with your smile. She wants a nice surprise. -Depeche Mode Talking to my daughter about moving to New York   When I try to tell you a story about when I was twenty-two   I see my own anxiety outlined in your arms and…