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You can find Michelle's poetry, book reviews, fiction, and nonfiction both online and in print.
Your words are tusks; they shuck and hull me. -- From "The Women We Always Imagined"
Her mother just chided her, told her Gertrude was an Old German name meaning "strength," reminded her she had won the pumpkin decorating contest in 3rd grade so her name couldn't be all that bad. -- From "Faith, Hope, and Gertrude"
“One evening I went out to call the cow. I walked to the old gate and I looked up and I had the Lord on my mind. I went to say, Sook Jersey, and I said, Sook Jesus.” – Vera Jewel-- From "Sook Jesus: The Vera Letters"
I’m not sure I’ve ever been mauled so deeply by someone else’s grief. -- From review of In Accelerated Silence
