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Of course you called for things most soothing, in that echo chamber between your hands, a megaphone of hope that carried your entreaties to the dusty other world flattened behind the blinds. You’d get there yourself if you...

My family didn’t recognize me when I knocked weakly on the door, aspect hidden in the dark, repeating silently names I wasn’t sure I could still pronounce. But after relaxing to my presence at the table, my wife extended her...

After Robert Hayden Awake I’d hear her uneven steps on linoleum the limp a gift from polio during the Great Depression. Then the clink of bowls and spoons, the fridge door that swung open and closed like judgment. Girls were...

After Maya Angelou Light forces its will over the Carson Range between my wooden blinds. Keys on hooks, on a laptop all nap in anticipation of fingers, of jingle and tap. The city stretches itself awake foothills to mountains....

Problem solved, Doctor Science? Honeybee die-off a thing of the past? I’ve seen your prototype drone bee, size of a pack of cigarettes, four propellers, horse hair bristles coated with gel. It seems— cumbersome—a polite word for...

Upstream of this human playground, the Russian River runs free, sometimes deep, sometimes gravelly. To drink we place it in pipes. One pipe turns into two turns into three turns into et cetera. A multiplicity of pipes. A river...

My cardiologist, my leaky valve, I’ve known all along about the starlings in my heart. They should be no secrets between us. When will they make ready to fly? In bed I ponder seasons of sickness and health, and finally rise up...

When I climb a hill of discarded ore to admire a dead-gorgeous blue-green pond, I’m channeling the thoughts of migrating grebes and mallard ducks who cross the Great Basin Desert seeking refuge. Surprise—this pond is...

A son scrolls through reels, as his father wants to share the power of narrative The son seeks a fast laugh, as his father cries ‘plot imperative!’ It takes a year of persuasion to watch film series, will the son...