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Princess kept me sane through the loneliness of early adolescence, through my sister’s screams, through my parents’ failures, through my isolated years as classmates partied in teenage crowds. But Princess loved me, and I spent...

As I sit on this bench at my poetry pond, breezes cool my armpits after my walk from home. I muse upon the freedom of breezes, their carefree saunters across borders, how they flaunt and jeer at the goons of ICE. Sitting here,...

In early March, 2041, after hearing the woes of Princeton refugees, how Nassau Street’s pavement melted in the sun, how tar flowed through streets and houses burned, how lungs filled with acid bile, and housecats and ducks...

Do chestnuts still bloom conical in the trees of Kyiv where once we worked to fight a plague? Do kids still play in Shevchenko Park? Eat ice cream while parents drink the park’s flowing beer, or play chess below the statue of a...

the other day when I got the call I never wanted to ever have to answer I crumpled to the floor and disintegrated, broken in just a moment my world had turned upside and I had to remind myself to breathe as I was struggling to...

Miles Davis on the stereo muted horn singing the melody while snow falls outside my window candle flickers in the near-gloaming evening cats warm by the fireplace softly purr-snoring and thoughts of you drift in through the...

when I was seven we flew to California to see family they didn’t have four seats together in coach so we got to ride first class seats were palatial like sitting on a couch in the air with room for both my lifesize doll and me...