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Lying there, in sun that’s honey-thick, I try untangling my fingers from your hair, trimmed into a soldier’s cut, some mythic lion mane. You know, you say, I used to wear a ponytail. You’d grow it back – in a heartbeat, if you...

Always ahead, Face grim, double-diapered,         oxygen tank buzzing, Somebody’s Grandpa, face stiffened,         one hand hanging limp, “Please call me Emma,” eyes ever dimmed,         tightly grasps a Kleenex box. chairs...

Blood, sinew, and bone Revolve through the pendulum arc Powering the carbon-light frame With hips locked Shoulders rounding Fingertips feathering the brake I laugh as the wind— Always faster— Pushes against me   Dan Bruno...

I have not seen you in twenty-five years, But the force of possibility, Of what we never became, Still catches me off guard. Even now, I think of your face, And my gut hollows. Natural laws govern this universe, And I believed...

I’ve never been to Dodge City, but I did dodge going into the service by getting a high lottery number way back when. And looking back, I was very fortunate in one respect as I’ve always had an aversion to authority, often...

what will this summer hold now that it won’t hold you I have two classes to take both are have-to-dos versus want-to-dos I have my plane ticket for Michigan to see my friends the last week of summer but that is forever...

I sit in the gloaming on my front porch inhaling the fresh scent of the world the humidity of my just-watered flowers soaking into the night the trees making me oxygen through their photosynthetic leaves the gorgeous perfume of...

with love let me be very clear so there is not a shadow of a doubt I love and respect Michelle Obama when she was in the White House as our First Lady emphasis on the word lady and afterward as she has continued to remind us...

my heart holds yours today anniversaries of their life of our loss demarcations of gone-ness leave me hollow and bereft grief is not a straight line no matter how hard I would like it to be in the cracks in your heart may joy...

It was a party I didn’t even want to attend, I’m not much for dancing and we were just friends. Somewhere between the chorus and the second glass of champagne, It started to feel different when she was saying my name. Caty...

A voyeur of love was the life to which I’d resigned, Preferring to be a witness to what could never be mine. But the moment I first heard my name on her breath, Was the moment I realized I’d been starving to...

We float north downriver where forest gives way to tundra at midnight orange sun floats on horizon in the distance Arctic Ocean ice real borders are not those of nations but places tundra swans and snowy owls know so well we...