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Now that age has diminished my reach, I miss that soft intermittent sound she made when I was most a part of her. Not the pinnacle of her pleasure− held breath, shudder of muscle− obtainable by other means, but the low, guttural...

A man’s world. Hands and stories. Scissors, clippers, and blades. Hair gathered after the fall. Civilization and its discontents. Heroes made and dismantled. One man hovering over another like a bee. Shave to a new birth. The...

Why shouldn’t I fall in love with myself? The gently rippling waters betray me into beauty, distorting mirror of who I am or could be. I can’t wait for another. The day is warm, inviting, the breeze says, Yes! with an echo firm...

I can still hear the echo of the shell that was your life. The sea.    The air. The absent flesh. How much walking was done along that sand in sun, in rainstorm, words melding with birds’ insistent chirping. Almost nothing was...

The bombs go off and our ears explode like confetti. Yet we are still here, shards of former souls, refugees of another world. Someday silence may be golden as an apple, we may find our bed beside the stones, headlines will...

hieroglyphics cave paintings calligraphy scrolls fulfilling archaeological satisfactions the tribes keep moving light from darkness darkness from light their questions find answers their answers find questions woodlands and...