We are shaped by what we choose not to do They stay fear of unknown nibbles them I leave after vespers her vast hand flings a torch they will never see I leave a pulse of need whips through me. I stake my claim in nocturne sky...
Read MoreWhen I first heard about the workshops at Centrum, acceptance into the program was competitive. Initially, I didn’t get in. But then someone cancelled, which left an opening and Centrum asked if I could fill that space. I was so...
Read MoreI lifted my head to see where I was. I didn’t expect to see a window, yet there was a small one, high, close to the edge of the ceiling. I put my hands on the dirt floor to push myself up and felt the grains of dust stick on my...
Read MoreIt seemed natural that my father, an import/export coffee merchant would share stories about coffee and its background that slow Sunday afternoon. We sat on our sunny balcony in Greece, sipping cups of aromatic Turkish coffee....
Read MoreMy dog Fala is the princess of my house Not the princess but the queen or rather the Lilith of the place or the Dragon Lady She can’t be the Catwoman she’s a dog but none of these can define her she’s as complex as a spaceship...
Read Morelay under the florescent light, below the blinking murmur of monitors, stunning and naked despite the cancer and her age. Her body under wild hands – doctors and residents, pretending to know how to resuscitate. I am dumb. I...
Read MoreRain stuck in clouds along the ridge, Kennesaw Mountain and yellow crane, the metal road dead-ends in air. Dogwood trunks and lines of pines, wafts of beigey windswept weeds mark the end of March, of storm leaving frozen sticks...
Read MoreThe dog sleeps on the shower floor, “everyone” in isolation. We have new heroes, the nearly ignored who pack our chips and vegetables into trunks, talking heads on the news live from their basements, shop cashiers, ER nurses and...
Read Morediscover hieroglyphics decipher lines and swirls ponder meaning exit muse
Read Moresanitation evolution bush to slit trench flush toilet to port-a-potty pipes from village down river metropolis feeling civilized important to relax cast the first...
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