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Today, waiting for the meeting to start, the transport entered, didn’t say a word, took a seat, not directly across, but aslant. She looked at me intently, as if a need (or was it a hunger) stirred, as if a gust front passed...

He tells me I’m haunted by what happened when she turned, pursed her lips, said the words that cleaved . . . Wide horizon, open sky, breeze restless as a mind, as tall grass sways, one way, then another, then flattened by rain....

Like a windstorm I’ve ravaged a body and it is mine, sometimes in the clutch of night, or in small town piazzas, when I try out a new phrase. O, booths, lanes, empty houses, I cannot hold the wind that rips through as I wade...

I’ve stopped watching, stopped reading the news: I’m tired of the world’s ugliness, and no one to teach beauty. I love this quiet moment with my teacup, looking out my favorite window, where each morning deer...

How often did you stand at the front door of your 20 Church Street, fumbling with your keys, refusing the cold, thinking of all 20 Church Streets, all their owners and tenants, oak doors and painted doors, some elegant, and some...

Early morning and my car is mired in the snow, here on my driveway’s steep slope. Knee deep in cold, I dig out snow from before and behind tires. Strangers, so warm in their cars, drive by and drive by. When one stops, I don’t...

I just stuffed a ghost in this old yellow envelope addressed to you It did not resist grey little dust bunny & I did not check to see if it was sad or merely resigned to be a message of mere symbolic import I was glad it...

The runaway leaf the one that did not want to be shoved in to a pile with all the rest the leaf that got away but where was it to go be blown about with all the other wayward leaves it needed a purpose or could it just be free...

Standing by the sink in her silky, satin robe, Marilyn wrung out her wrath like a red dish towel. Ken steamed in his cup of indignation. But two mugs held freshly ground, pungent French roast, and it was morning in America.    ...