Some people are granted only a few moments during which they can safely say, “I was really doing pretty good.” For these people, many of these moments are granted too early, and so cannot be remembered well enough, regardless of their qualities. They might, granted perfect recollection of all the moments of their life, think... Continue Reading →
about this piece COVID Thanksgiving2020 See More in Cartoons
Our mothers worked insoot furnaces late into nightsuntil their skins became reflections of the firebefore them.They patted their blistered handswith lavender oil and honeybefore the morning began — yet againthey would disappear into their small factorieslike little glowwormsin the sun-streaked woods.Our mothers chopped and cookedpots of curry in the hours between.They tied our hair up... Continue Reading →
I “Cherries!” Beneath the word, she’d painted a pair of cartoon cherries smiling, happy their stems were joined. “Go on, sugar, paint Daddy some nice signs to put on the road,” he’d said. She thought the signs would have been better if he’d bought the good paints, the ones that came in skinny tubes, not... Continue Reading →
about this piece Welcome to the Park2020 The 2020 Midwest Derecho savaged Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and surroundingareas on August 10-11, 2020. In September, much of the devastation left by theDerecho still surrounds the grill and benches at Daniels Park in Cedar Rapids. See More in Art...
long long legsmade forrunning and jumpingand openingwide wider widestto takethe sacrament ofman theflowering rod thatslays thevoice of warand thedamnable caul ofsingularity separatingthe wall offlesh fromevery other thingliving ornot the frictionthat provesi'm not granitebut abreakable innocentwith abright red riverflowing inthin-walled veinsfixed inan invisible patternof longingi vaguely rememberit's beentoo long sincei've beenchiseled open tothe gloriousthief of thoughtthat... Continue Reading →
about this piece Election Day 20202020 See More in Cartoons
about this piece The 2020 Vote2020 See More in Cartoons
Cartoons are a hardcore visual way to unleash the emotions we all feel but can’t always express.
she brought us “yesterday once more” minus the hi-fi,and we drank the silk milk of her voice,watched her body thin on prime-time Saturday nightadmired the way her sharpening shoulders pleatedthe grosgrain ribbons on made-for-tv pastel dresses.Our 60’s sisters left us for LSD and a Summer of Love,a loss we girls grieved in the asylums of... Continue Reading →
