Month: August 2019
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Virginity
“Are you a virgin?” The two boys leer at me. Their silly grins hide something that, to me, is inscrutable.…
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Firehole Canyon
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA2003Acrylic on canvas20″ x 16″
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Light Spectrum
I was talking in mystic chordmemory, in chime and pulling throughthe light of all things Across, across the battered bookkeepingdollar…
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West Side Wonders
* Digital photo by author. San Antonio, Texas, USA To the man with the charcoal grillheld up by three flammable,…
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Woman Posing
after Jan Gossaert’s Portrait of an Old Couple (ca. 1525-1530)So here we are,a few years shortof wizened, fitto sit dressed…
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OCD
OCD (Oh-see-dee) n. 1. An imagination that can override trusting one’s self. 2. Checking the door knob for the eighth time…
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Que No Puedo Entregar
after i finally write about beingmexican i am told i can’t writea whole book about being mexican i tell my…
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Bread and Circus
* Jean-Michel Othoniel’s Noeud Rouge, Paragon, Singapore. Photo by author. Briefly on Orchard picking up Paul olive & pomidoro, two small croissantswith the dahl from Wadi…
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Provenance: Who Owns the Bathwater?
Frida Kahlo y Calderón grows up, makes love and diesin La Casa Azul, her blue family home in Coyoacán,a village…