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Six months before my sixtieth year I’m diagnosed with breast cancer. The biopsy reveals it’s triple negative. Meaning nothing positive. Aggressive, wildly mutating, strangely behaving cells, not even nourished by the hormones...

Fueled with visions of giant tortoises and blue-footed boobies, I lace up my boots. A surprise snowstorm lurks just hours away; we rush out to the cab so we can fly to the desert islands—Galapagos. I need to walk other shores,...

(April 2020) Quiet days, quiet nights a quiet so profound it might be read as peace but for hushed talk in the rooms of shut houses and the few masked figures seen from a distance gliding down emptied streets. It’s Spring: bird...

One foot after another. Leaf litter crushed by my tread whispers December. Ice skins ponds cautiously. extending thin fingers of deceptive beckoning sheen. The trail like others turns retrograde as I haul myself forward future...

(Video, c. 1986) She likes my tie better than my playing he says, embarrassing young escorts struck mute by the magisterial aura of greatness. It’s quite a bow-tie: floppy, purple, white dots upstaging his faintly amused...

Let’s claim the abandoned factory, the one where gutted pigs hung on hooks, cars emerged from metal casings or, yes, textiles spun from clattering looms, 24 hours a day, filling the air with cotton. Let’s put clear, clean glass...

I plan tomorrow’s move, journey to my next future. Boxes climb the walls like tendrils of overlooked ivy. Roses inch up the trellis outside the back door. All this growth twenty-five summers hoeing choke weed, gardening back...

Another lover disappears, ghosts echo loss, even derision. The record holder for shortest affairs, I entreat these misalliances, small Wonders of dreamscape over real, like bones with no underpinnings to salvage. Love or...

This morning, you studied the frost on the railing of the lighthouse. You checked the handwritten weather logs for a comparison to this time last year. You studied the curves and thrusts of the letters in the words written by...