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Did you know that lichen, an elegant union of alga and fungus, covers six percent of the earth’s non-wat’ry surfaces? Six percent, which makes me wonder what percentage of our earth is covered with jealousy? Indifference? Rage?...

She emerged from the bird bath and flew right into the heaven that is reserved for birds that fly into the blazing world of a window’s embrace Every morning her ghost reappears, clean and dripping on the kitchen window So every...

A poem in itself, harp plus prima donna, but from the pit, more guts, the sound of pluck, tap of toe shoe on stage plank, torque of spin, the impeccable geometry of arpeggio And up on stage, the thump after leap, reminding us of...

  Up the mountain, where the rock bares its secrets and I breathe in the earth without a filter, where stoic is the only name for the trees who take what is given to them every season, I find the black, the white, I carry...

Kilo of crystal meth under the spare tire in the trunk, like an episode of Breaking Bad, Charlie warbles and beats the rhythm of Motor Head on his steering wheel as he crosses the state line from Louisiana to Texas. A police car...

Standing on my single bed barefoot on pink bedspread, spreading my arms, precise quiver of shoulders, slight jerk to the elbows, and lifting, lifting, to circle, to circle and circle under the light fixture. I would have flown...

as in totally worthless, of no use whatsoever, like hot horse manure on cobbled city streets where birds scavenge joyfully. What doesn’t matter matters. Today all my visitor birds hide from the rain. Outside the window,...

A robin can hear earthworms crawling under the ground. What is it that I am hearing this rainy January night? Rain hard against my window, rain soft on the dark grass. Some nights I’m an old robin barely hopping, not flying. I...

In life its temperature would be 107° degrees I found it dead on top of the snow I put it in a small jar from Oregon huckleberry jam hoping it would feel at home Tonight I carefully opened my refrigerator freezer and warmed the...

they make a silencer for door slamming our facilitator just returned one to her pink & purple floral tote * the leafiest month slides open revealing a skeletal elm its elegant bones mid-July little firecrackers continue to...

Losing her longtime friends, she has wept alone. They’re still in this town but caught in a viral lie that could reduce each to a bag of bones. Losing her longtime friends, she has wept alone. Newly arrived here I take her into...

printed in white on the back of his T-shirt. This young man in black is the first alteration to grab me when the bank re-opens to those with no scheduled appointment. We need security more than before, I guess. So I am thankful....