When you finally buy limes and seltzerfor your gin.When evening air still ripples, coolas a silk scarf against your neck.When you smile, hearing the first slap of flip flops on cement.When no one can keep up with nature,when mosquitos invade the airbefore anyone expects them.When the first hummingbird dive-bombs with his tiny spear. Read More... Continue Reading →
“…thrown on a treadmill of unease, hour after hour of tossing and turninguntil I was weeping for rest.”Derek Jarman in MODERN NATURECountless grays smother the night.I slip into anxious dream, slip halfway out, teeter,grudgingly open a book, aimingat distraction. The green lamp is angledto a pool of boiled yellow.I ignore time or try, dismiss the... Continue Reading →
Linda’s first mistake was getting lost inside an IKEA. Her second was thinking she could run. The Swedish meatballs she had eaten hours before made her sluggish and easy to track through the aisles as the fluorescent lighting shone down like a searchlight. Her footsteps rang out on the cold laminate as she passed through... Continue Reading →
News: High School Shooting Claims Twelve 1. (at 24) We’re sitting on the steps in the dark watching the storm come and the wind gusts and the cool air touches my skin and it smells of water and the tree leaves on the big oak ripple like green waves and the undersides of the clouds flash... Continue Reading →
When the first truck hit Nevin’s dog, the howls echoed off the brick walls of First United Methodist Church. It was in March in the East End where snow piled on the corners higher than the first story of our house. The depth of ice on the lake measured in feet. Coal soot sat on... Continue Reading →
Because I dream of flying, I ask my father for wings. He believes only sons should fly above the earth. At first, I turn angry at this lack of value awarded to daughters. Don’t I deserve the same rights as my three brothers? When offered wings, my smartest brother refuses them. He says, “Had we... Continue Reading →
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My work celebrates the spontaneous, the whimsical, and the beautifully chaotic.
