Kitchen Witch /Theresa Boyar

 Theresa Boyar (www.theresaboyar.com) is a seven-time Pushcart nominee whose poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in several journals. Her poem "Our Kitchen of Perpetual Failure" was awarded the Penny Jar Prize from Half Drunk Muse and her short story "Waxing Razal" was a 2007 BASS anthology nominee. She lives with her husband and two sons in Helena, Montana. from Kitchen Witch Island Island It's getting hard to see for all the shipwrecks. Splintered boards, tangled masts, bearded helmsmen—some still smiling, the promise of perfection still skating their eyes despite the illogical angles of their limbs. In sunlight, I help my sisters carry bleached bones across a dry beach. We press them into the sand, simple. I like, have always liked, the shift of cool sand flooding my hands, this part I've played since I can remember. But things have changed. Last time: a femur grating, knocking against something equally hard below. A hateful sound. Bone against bone. I shoved until m