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I bite my tongue for you. My mind boils, a pot of steaming thoughts bubbling over. I turn it down to a simmer, clean the floor with a dirty mop, light a candle to erase the smell. I stifle the burning in my brain, hit it hard...

My death thoughts travel on feathers, gliding by so quickly that I must race to cup them between my palms like frightened, wounded birds. When I peek at them between cracks in my flexed fingers, checking for brokenness or...

Cornbread and pinto beans spread across a porcelain plate, topped with bitingly sour pickled vegetables and a tiny mountain of boiled potatoes. Each mouthful is a taste of my life: Tennessee Valley poverty, hot and lasting;...

Where you always sit the swallows give way to bats and the day’s swelter rises and cools. Where heavy weather gathers to squall and the new day calls the early bud to leaf. Where everything goes where clouds pass you by another...

Which flies by or even through you the unknown number of the days you can count on. What can you learn from the future except it’s too late too soon? What’s passed passes forgetting there is no shortage of...

you call one when it goes on this long. But it has to, doesn’t it, end? Didn’t the days you splashed through? The nights you crawled a waning moon? Didn’t the poppies steam and fume, a heron stalk the weedy shallows? Didn’t the...

I mean dark, no moon or stars, no light from the other shore. Darker than a well all out of wishes, dark as a heart empty of love as a pocketful of holes, as a hand with no hand to hold, as half a glass as the unheard song of...

It stirs and rises climbs the stairs pours the coffee lights the smoke. Stares at what’s there looking for what isn’t accompanied by some silent score or not. . It waits, seasons do not change but settle. Time flows past to...