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The waves’ white meringue points, the internet drifting in and out, should have alerted us, but the schedule crisp as a cloudless sky, the wizardry of computer navigation, lulled our doubts to sleep. We woke as our ship sailed...

You recognized me. From your tree height, your fluttery eyes found my teary ones. I, who, at the age of seventy-one holds within me the seven-year-old who in the Bronx Zoo watched you munch from trees planted in a fenced-in...

After Allen Ginsberg and William Blake Sunflower, greyed and coated with the grime of war, you’ve never confused military-industrial soot with your golden petals. Your taproot extends up to five feet deep. Spawns networks of...

I Breakfast news of the surprise attack startles me into nightmare wakefulness. In the woods we are the only sounds, filling the air with our steps. With our talk of autumn, family. A red-tailed hawk stares at us as we stare at...

Mary and Joseph with earth brown skin, straight black hair, look holy and patient. Three wise men with complexions of white and brown and black kneel on the cold stable floor, bear gifts. Guinea pigs huddle in attention. I...

I sit at his side with my copy of Joyce’s Ulysses. The IV drips into my father’s arm, his body ravaged by glucose, sweet and seductive as the Sirens’ songs. I read Ulysses because it is long and dense and oh so revered. As I...