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I breathe deeply and familiar fragrance fills the air, not quite as vibrant now, but lovely all the same. Suddenly, an unexpected spice, a startling zest, grabs hold of softer blooms and me, defenseless. The fiery assault...

he said, and it practically sent me reeling off the couch. He looked at me intently, in the eyes, and said, You Are My World. We were watching TV, in mid-pandemic lockdown, unable to go out anywhere, both of us peaceful and...

Ashen face, eyes filmed with gray, that look out, dull, unseeing, gaze beyond her wheelchair angled randomly, by rushed attendants, at a wall of clouded windows in this day-room, children and grandchildren visit often: “Mama,...

plods through new snow. The deep tracks of her footprints precede her. Clearly she has walked here before, like when she saw the first photo of earth from space, and she already knew just how the planet would look, or when she...

I always felt bad for my brothers and sisters stuck to the head of that bitch.

The yellow buttercups drink it like my skin drinks it. When they spread their petals I spread my arms. Where the hill makes a shadow between me and sun, I nibble along the hilltop, chewing on sparse bushes. My belly glows...

1 January wind. High above the wheatfield, a large buteo hawk unmoving until, after long seconds, a slight wing flap to hover in place. 2 Me at my desk, and the dog, having raced across wheatfields, sprawled out on the squares...