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A crane lands at the margin of a lake. It is lonely. The wings feel winter heavy, the sun dim as a moon. The water ripples faintly, promising a small movement, rising and falling like breath and breaking the mirror that is its...

A Testimony Why do I still remember? Perhaps the beauty of madness in a sanatorium by the water, rage over a stolen suitcase, going lost in city streets, a marriage with promise that broke like glass. Somehow still a city of...

Why read anything if you’re not transformed? Right here. Right now. Taken right out of yourself like a floor-lamp rising behind the chair. You have become another for a while, a new face, a new scream, a soul before the ages...

counting, cups, saucers deep wooden shelves shadow her would haves, might haves checking plates and might have, if only he, why didn’t she among the ranked soup bowls wish I, wish they, in drawers she doesn’t open compartments...

including words donated by a friend She took the plunge to chatelaine her crowded ring of keys invisible to others its weight of duties unguent against the constant knocks on mind’s doors ever-present not-enoughs should-haves...

We make him dress up, hooded cloak, scythe and skull, the Grim Reaper, put a name to it sinister slapstick to cover the skeleton he is. Furtive footsteps, heard but not seen in the wooly uncertain night, in the darkened hospital...

In spring you touched me like a newfound flower, kissed me with your rose-red mouth, caressed me with your hands; you said wait till summer, write it down, write it down. Now the river grows hot and slows under the sun, the path...