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Commuting: the Sentence
If you're lucky, you catch the early train If you're wise, you're early to bed To get up early to go back again Healthy,…
It’s been so long
since I’ve dreamed anything that was not nightmare This spring with goslings in the roses, tulips and crocuses pushing color thru crystal ice, I…
PoetryThe Bird Outside Our Kitchen
I couldn't help but smile when a bird outside our kitchen trilled "Whew whew whew!" Then it switched to "Wee-oop whee-oop whee-oop!" "Listen to…
PoetryWhy I have weaponized the thistledown
Awake the pollen grains and log each tiny particle gone with the wind onto our most secure of networks. There's notice served. It's time...…
PoetryNow that you’re asleep
The pinkie of your left hand is very small. You rarely ever finish almond milk, you make a face while eating cereal, always pull…
PoetryHow to Become Invisible
Lose your job, your mind, your husband step over the lines, off the map, into unmarked alleys Talk too fast, too much, too loud,…
PoetryWild-Flower Picker in a Straitjacket
In risking the dancing eyes of supermarket girls under fringes, or to chance the scanty graze on busy buses of a nyloned knee, or…
PoetryAhmed’s Sparrow
Tiny winged corpse, trapped inside the aluminum frame of a storm window; Ahmed freed the frozen, fragile body with his pen in hopes that…
Maria
I chase a cat who scampers across the beach. Her gait's mysterious; assured yet zigzag and every few moments she stops to tease. I…
PoetryAssassination of a Critic
"Rhymes in poems are dead," he said. I laughed and shouldered the bazooka, shook a Vicodin from the bottle and chased it with gin.…
PoetryLess Tomorrow
Fell asleep inside him after wind slipped through a window, found a crack into my absent mind. Tomorrow lurks around our edges, minutes fall…
Most times though we’d sit
Most times though we’d sit with trays on our knees the microwave cartons full of steaming food too hot to touch at the edges…