I was at the bar, worried my hair looked like Frankenstien’s bride, admiring your tan arms. My hands wiped air like napkins I don’t know what I expected them to say— didn’t […]
“Can anyone give me an example of irony in Oedipus the King?” Silence. In the back, where he thinks I can’t see him, the P.E. major in ripped jeans and a t-shirt […]
In retirement, you’re supposed to do those things you’ve always wanted to do. Whether I like it or not, money, at least for me, is no longer a factor. Even with money […]
I didn’t pay much attention to the little things: strangers, antics, and matters of triviality. I saw straight ahead. I saw whatever was necessary. Expending further energy would require a matter of […]
It’s mid-October and I’m bundled up, wearing long sleeves that cap the tops of my hands, a normal thing for me. Ever since I started doing outreach with teens, I’ve become even […]
– Believe it or not, the ancient Chinese 5-Agent Principle accounts for us all. 1/ Water (born in a year ending in 2 or 3) -helps wood but hinders fire; helped by […]
Dewdrop bodies melt together like tallow candles in firebombed Dresden, while hummingbirds dogfight over nectar, ruby and false, here in this place, where the butterflies come to die.
Blood and Calendars There is deep terror in how the world wants to curl around your hand. It is almost too easy. Monuments collapse with a push. Let’s place boundaries on the […]
A thing of no ordinary pulse A thing of adventure in mountains A thing of love and when you speak of love a million have spoken your thoughts vibed your waves and […]
In the twilight of the night, in the rain-fog at summer’s edge, when the skunk comes amble-burrowing in the compost heap for scraps of marrow to deep to suck from bone, when […]
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