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Fear seizes your grip Tires crunch, splutter, skid—unease Glass streets—bruisey, cruel.

It gets late so early now dinner at five not seven no wine allowed (bottles stashed behind winter boots) no appetite, food picked at, pretending, pushed around the plate or piled in a stack like a child’s broccoli or placed in a...

I snuck out of the house my mother in bed with her bottles her breakfast coffee covered with a skin of cream I rode my rickety Schwinn to the library Miss Lewis looked up and smiled let me curl up in the red leather chair that...

They insist, my nosy children after I left the car running, forgot to pay PG&E and got lost coming home from Lucky, ending up in New Jersey What’s the problem if I know the names of my four or is it five grandkids, and can...

The greatest paradox of all time, Is that righteous men proselytize, To desecrate and conquer, Justifying their bestial crimes As civilizing. They pillage, exterminate, and rape, As a-necessary-evil, Contradicting their own...

Her paws sink into the soft blanket. Like a spring they thrust her torso into the air thick with white flakes shaken from the green of spruce branches. Her glee thrills me. He stands still in his silvered black coat, his eyes...