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Coincidentally, everything we knew came apart during the aftermath, the shame and anxiety, of Watergate. Dad, my little sister and I failed miserably in curbing events: bankruptcy, divorce, foreclosure, the loss of suburban...

Flying over it makes no impression, an abstraction as if the atmosphere between is mountains, canyons, and savannas. Twice I confronted the Atlantic, awed by its chaotic power, its vast, terrifying breadth; the uncertainty of...

Sensible things are Not always most sought Haven’t the sheer value Of yet another place setting I sit to order now online That will make 19 Nearly its age Of the Thanksgiving china Not yet to grace the table

The world is square Outside my screen door Two birds I can’t name Play tag chasing Touching, separating In the snap of a second   I’ve re-invented my living Alone with nothing Else to do now My nose breathing The sharp dank...

She plunges into gloom.             Seems unlikely, no impossible she will climb out.             Room insists on blackened silence.             Even my stare becomes a struggle.   Empty rocking chair             near open...

Cold golden evening offers a state of lasting repose. Nearby creek converses with my nameless torment. One meadowlark high in clannish family of willows intones language staccato. I wish to dispose, release distress from sunken...

A small, boxy Chevy in fading, beaten beige a reminder of a lost aunt sitting at the side of our lot taunting two silly friends to find the key, coast across the street  around to the back of the church, to our own training...