Jenn Kennedy

 

Liz O'Kelly

Perfect moments are created one detail at a time," according to Laura Weatherly's wedding-planning website. Perfect murders are, too--including bumping off the mother of the bride (MOB, in wedding-planner speak.)

Liz Rusch is an optimist. How did she get that way? Hanging around with kids.

 

BIOPSY Suddenly it is there on its pogo-stick of sound, like some bastard brother out of Beatrix Potter-- Flopsy, Mopsy, and Biopsy. You cannot shove it away. It settles in like the quality of light in the sky.

A pulmonary intensive care unit might be the last place you would expect to find poetry. But it is here, every day.