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Cold, empty tea kettle resting at the edge of the stove cat’s food dish empty from the night before bedspread and pillows jumbled in a heap all silently coaxing this mind-body to stop its hovering and indecision shift into...

just a quick walk, two blocks east— that little bookstore on the corner I close the door, step into the sunshine walking shoes sturdy against the pavement down one street, turn left— music thumping from car stereos it’s hot now,...

I refuse to be your Atlas; my back will not be bowed beneath the weight of your barbed heavens my shoulders were never designed to carry the waste of a toxic narcissist

The wind whips through my hair, flinging apple-scented strands into my open gap-tooth smile, but I don’t mind. I raise my hands to the heavens, wiggle my fingertips, pretend to touch that endless, inky space of stars,...

coffee is good for your heart coffee is bad for your heart eat three servings of veggies a day, fresh, not frozen veggies come in a pill eat an egg—don’t eat an egg. Dr. Lab Coat will weigh you, number your cholesterol, check...

WORD AS LIGHT BY JOHN HOYTE I am two, on a footbridge in China. My mother holds me over a bubbling stream.           She says, Look, Jackie. My toes barely touch the ripples and the colors dance. I laugh the laugh of discovery,...

His were simple, ordinary words. It was how they were said, sharp-edged, with a smudge of frown on his face. My mind had been far away, so it took time to absorb the venom. In decoding the message, blood rose to my face. My...

Furtively I tried to downplay  the deep wound I caused.   Carelessness and indifference     revealed my persistent pride.      I was in a prison of my mind.       There was no escape.       Guilt, a monster,      occupied the...

I depend on others. There was a time when it was not so, or so I thought.      I watched, amazed, as Alex Honnold      climbed 3,600-foot El Capitan without ropes.      Without a lifeline, one slip      and he would be gone.    ...

I used to think with you my scars were invisible but it just hit me with you my scars were infinitely visible and you kissed each one, tenderly till I felt whole, again   Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches,...

I walked around the lake today for the first time since you died the lake where we lived the lake where we built our deck the lake where we got married the lake where we built a life together the lake where your memorial bench...

I love a good rip-roaring summer thunderstorm when the temperature drops ten degrees in a matter of minutes and I’m wrapped up in a blanket over my shorts and tee shirt with an adult beverage to sip while I watch the sky...