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Grime isn’t dirt but something insidious that elbow grease can’t touch, something that seeps into the walls of an old house. It wears time like a coat once fashionable that has seen better days. Serviceable– that’s the best you...

The last of a long row planted by the Highway Department as a warning: Pedestrians: do not cross here. It’s a six-lane highway with esplanade placed to thwart head-on collisions – no crosswalks, no street lights or overpasses....

This morning it was dark out and I forgot if it was day or night I didn’t know whether to open or close the curtains put on or take off my clothes yawn or scream I had read that some jellyfish can age backwards but it wasn’t...

In nature I wait for signs to move forward I listen for whispers and swishes watch for shapes and flickerings I feel my way through shadows and thorns and stop to breathe and watch I rely on the sun to grow the moon to harvest...

I live in a town with 24 graveyards tens of thousands of people have died here since it was founded in 1853 but only a few were buried in marked graves disparate lives separate deaths the rich attached to the space they earned...

It struck me today as dinnertime arrived that if fairness were the norm and a person like me could change the way things are I should skip this meal or take it down to the shelter or call my congressperson and say I will only...

petals scattered from last night’s storm my grieving heart

I remind myself to eat lunch mid-afternoon grief steals appetites

I just remembered you’re still my emergency contact

just hit me the next time I make strawberry jam there will be no way to send you yours

Allen moved to California three weeks after school started and now has returned in April. Maybe he’s a migrant, or maybe he’s a shuttlecock being batted between divorced parents. The counselor says Allen has attended ten schools...

When one has been teaching a long time, old students stop you in the grocery store and say, “Remember me?” And you tell them they sat in the second row by the windows, but I’ve had thousands of students, so please tell me your...