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why am I staring at a computer screen in a pale blue room? he joked about my weight (sensitive subject) I joined a gym you smiled at me from the next bike I smiled too soon so in love we couldn’t eat I lost weight, forgot about...

You gaze into the mirror in the morning, skin blotchy and lined, curly hair turned to frizz dyed to its original blond. You won’t fool anyone. As you turn from the mirror, a doppelganger takes your place – a straighter spine,...

It’s not about creating distance. But my neighbor’s nostrils flare in defensive annoyance when I tell him our plan. On bright days his south-facing wall casts a white-hot glare through our living room windows. Instead of hanging...

poetry makes nothing happen –Auden You’re nothing. Travelers scramble by over bridges and culverts without a pause for your obscure babble. Only the road matters. It pushes you out of the way as if your rolling rhythms...

Madeline asked if I would go with her to Radio City Music Hall for a show. I was naïve and young; she was pretty. We left New Haven by train, were deposited on Manhattan’s bright, teeming shore one crisp winter’s night. In the...

Puna District, Island of Hawai‘i Dad drives a stretch of roadway with dips and rises. He accelerates, and his Datsun hatchback leaves pavement and earth briefly, and my stomach backflips through delight. Laughing, I urge Dad, do...

The human challenge, in brief— our world ends in fire. Some choose grief. All our tomorrows start now. Let’s not choose despair or a row. One simple, elegant fact: It’s never too late. Choose to act. Set a person free. Plant a...

Libations, by all means. Entreat me with a treat—stout, Anchor Steam beer, Jim Beam bourbon, an IPA, or another civilized beverage. Homemade mead or coffee liqueur. Perhaps a smooth Scotch whisky. Maybe a bottle of the finest...