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The kind that makes your face ache, the falling-down, tears and hiccup kind, often from the golden stones of retold stories when old friends gather. Remember when he said, she said? Right before the teacher threw the eraser? Oh...

What I know about that rooster down the road, belting out his good morning this morning, is that he belts like no other as if it’s his last morning on earth, as if he has saved up all his breath for this one outlandish...

Maybe because the greats are gone. Ella and Billie, even that grown girl of mine posed in green satin by the baby grand leg cocked at the knee, lips in a pucker. Maybe because birds sing the sun into being, put it to bed at...

The arctic is unraveling, like a finely knit sweater, threads have been pulled Old ice is breaking up, blue ice melting into black water, the sea ice is too young, too thin, too scarce In an attack gone undetected a knife has...

Almost too cold now the brightness is gone leaves torn by small animals edges turned brown The tomatoes are done so what is the point I tore a leaf anyway Summer woke up

I was trained to be rational, examine facts, do experiments. I had no way to test whether souls are recycled in some ultimate frugality, conservation of energy, preferences, quirks. But now data pour in from unimpeachable...

It’s not so much a rejection of my body as a loosening of attraction and attachment, a kind of liquidity, a softening in the marrow, collagen loosening in the joints, more water swilling between molecules that used to...

I prefer to think of my quirks and foibles, mistakes, gauche remarks and errors of judgment simply as ways I tested the world – a life-long experiment, gathering data that now, as I sidle towards senility, can be analyzed with...