Search Results for: Blaustein

          my zucchini plants teem with aphids. Gray ones in multiple           sizes! Infants. Nymphs. Adults discharging more infants – who fall out, grow up and reproduce again – robust and swarming every surface. They’re...

When I become a county bus, I want to be the one whose sign blinks “Out of Service” on every single run. I’d like to dirty dishes for someone else to clean, and watch them fill the sink with suds or load up a machine. One day...

We ride elephants to our rock on picnic day. When we arrive – at our boulder – we dismount and the elephants             stay there. They won’t leave without us. They wouldn’t, but it’s not like waiting. They don’t wait. They...

You are enough. No. Can’t be. Enough for what? What waits for me? Enough plates for the picnic?            Gas for the road? Metaphors for what we feel… Strength to carry the load? You are enough. I doubt it. I’m sure that...

Pretty is as pretty does If that’s so, I’m surely hideous. My nature as a babe in water is entirely predaceous. My appetite’s immense and my jaws are fabulous. I need to gobble minnows, and add them to my substance! Ugly when...