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I longed for a season without a storm, because one always brewed within our house when I was a child on Hinman Avenue. Even at six years old I sensed tension between Mom and Dad, but I didn’t realize their struggles would...

Edgewater Park seemed a hundred miles away when I was eight years old, and would travel there with my mom and dad to attend our family reunion. Located along the banks of Big Walnut Creek, the park was situated in a woods with a...

At first it felt eerie to celebrate the life of a friend whose photo was on a heavy slab of brownstone from a nearby quarry. Two other slabs were engraved with dinosaur paw prints. The place looked like a vandalized graveyard...

I see pungent skunk cabbage all the way down the boardwalk. Layers of feelings stink. Mosquitoes rub wings next to my ears; I want my pen to bite back. Cattails are lined up like microphones. Red-winged blackbird rants and then...

There’s a memorial bench with your name on it in a park teeming with roses. If I found it and sat there I’d probably work myself into a dry drunk by recalling our long lunches together and the stacks of poems you inspired me to...

Plant rows of sunflower seeds instead of randomly shot bullets in the fields You crafted in Ukraine. Stop screaming missiles and smoke so the sun at its brightest yellow can silently reign in a clear blue sky. Feed the hollow...