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every time I’d visit Michigan in the summer I’d invite you you’d remind me that you’ve never been yet and you’d say I can’t this year maybe next time Baby every time we talked about my dream of retiring to Michigan you’d remind...

Such lovely evasions they created, with brushes dipped in poetry. Their rivers flow serenely, skies radiant as the face of God. Their painted worlds are ruled by beauty and the law of love, ignoring the hardscrabble world below...

Not up there, out there, somewhere separate from the reality around us. Nothing foreign like some great power leaning over the universe tweaking the force of fate, casually dispensing life and death. Not the Other, a stranger to...

The universe flares across the dome to a collective gasp of tilted viewers regaled with a parade of zeros estimating distances in light years. Venus winks seductively as Mercury goes whizzing by. Our moon’s craggy face glows...

Shag brown carpet tangled between my toes Amber light shining through sheer curtains  Steaming black tea with milk And of course Homemade chocolate chip cookies The wizard of oz on VHS Play, stop, rewind Play Follow the yellow...

—for Emma When you visit it’s the opposite of me going back home. Everything about you bigger than I remember. Hands. Feet. Words. Your long body poking out from pink sheets, in the bed I once thought made you seem as...

— for C.G. Another snifter of straight bourbon shuttles back and forth. Along a three-inch patch of bar top, your right hand, intent, a blend of care and caution, as though whiskey could be a Jenga block placed precariously on...

When love meets with the august days of life, it still burns hot yet tempered by the days. The passions still doth sear in flame despite the cloudiness now seen within the gaze.      For with our age, I can offer wisdom.    ...