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In an almost all-white small town where I grew up, a good friend lived across the street, she, three years older than I. I had heard rumors that my friend was involved with the only black student in our high school but not about...

When the radio announced all clear, I headed to the college campus where I worked, not the first time that the chemical plant next door had leaked substances with forgettable names, a fire reportedly contained, its cloud...

Before it was over, a small crowd of neighbors had gathered, drawn by the sounds of saws and a machine chomping branches and spewing chips into a truck. Aroma of cedar cleaned the air. The machine labored with the thickest logs,...

In 1959 my future husband, eager teen, visited Glacier National Park, hiked up Curly Bear Mountain. He talked of it often, meant to go back, took me at last in 2009. I walked to St. Mary’s Falls alone, his hiking days over. The...

Undernourished youth, wings on hat and sandals, who cannot stop to eat a proper meal, talking as he runs. He’s Mercury, minister of messages. The astrologer promises much from him, now in the soulful sign of Pisces: mystery and...

Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes in the morning. Psalm 30 Like the smaller child in front of the television, desire pulls, nags, cries “Let’s go, I’m hungry!” Lethargy grouses, kicks his brother, won’t lift a hand...

I’ve seen eyes like these before death-camp children in striped pyjamas behind barbed wire never blinking * migrant children separated from parents crowded into cages shoulder to shoulder panic and chaos behind them frozen eyes...

Gloucester, England,1945 word was everywhere unseen all through the war a newsreel no unaccompanied children a challenge too irresistible I put on a beggar face a stranger took my shilling bought me a ticket. the concentration...

The sound of the ocean pounding California’s black granite coast, a gathering of sea otters surf the waves, shake off the relentless towers of spray, flip and dive, chase each other where crabs and sea urchins hide. In the...

Once white and rooted now torn from the base. Sunbaked then showered cold. Sliced into, onto, on top of. Massaged into brightness, crisped and idolized. Brushed in spice. Red encompassed. Consumed in excess. Now both of us full...