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She is liquid sapphire, the Aegean, conjuring myths in her cauldron beneath the open sea smooth as Aphrodite’s cheek. Santorini, jewel of the Cyclades, where volcanic sands write secrets about wars and heroes. Creamy pumice...

My body, a masterpiece of pointillism—freckles, moles, brown spots, pink spots, little red roses, age spots, bright cherry bunions, and bouquets of bruises paint their impressionism on my skin. After years living near the...

I married a rebel, my husband says, when I entered a construction site. In my defense, there was no one working. My nephew calls me an instigator because my tee shirt says, Be a Jimmy – Not a Donald. He says I’m a...

Once-upon-a-time friends shout Fascists in the Maidan, US imperialism, NATO encroachment, De-nazify Ukraine, and Ukraine is not a real nation. My friends respond, The right of self-determination, Russian imperialism, The right...

That which once was difficult becomes easy. That which once was easy, becomes hard. That which once was hard, becomes limp. Then becoming becomes no more.

I sit beneath trees whose names I do not know. Their foot-long spears droop down around miniature pine-cones. Below a cloud-crammed sky, Coles Bay’s waves caress starfish on their trip to a shell-strewn shore. Yesterday, when I...

Does it matter which way you go— the scenery the same, the views different, each an apology to the other, each a misunderstanding of the other? The line between tips one way or another. Then down you go! Into the throb of half...

Had I not migrated to this rural Utah mountain-valley where the alpenglow shimmers over snowy peaks, where canyon trails wend through sagebrush and pine, where ravens perch on quaking aspen boughs and deer trek across the...

Tonight as I wash the wound on your forearm, guide cotton swabs through narrow channels of blood, remove pebbles of crust from banks of swollen flesh, the result of melanoma excision, I study your skin. Once smooth as slate, and...

Would that we could preserve them: clouds dispersed in the indigo sky, geese in v-formation, river sibilant amid riparian willows. That these blessings trail furtive hummingbird flutters lessens resentments once prolific as...