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PoetryOne of the Many Reasons I Miss You
The backyard is humming with honey bees. The photinia hedge is a mass of clustered, tiny, white flowers. If you were here, I’d tease…
Creative Non-FictionMartyr Musical
Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the country's greatest president, could be termed a martyr, and yet there's an old one liner bit of humor about his…
PoetryEARTH LAG
9:00 am flight arrives at an ungodly time 2 hours behind. jet lag. earth lag. got to my hotel room but the card doesn’t…
PoetryMom Called
The breeze I ignored up in the attic is a dust devil dancing down the stairs a swirl of intent heading havoc to the…
PoetryJAWIN’ WITH THE WIND
jawin’ with the wind I just said I love you to her but was talkin’ to someone else the wind knows that blowin’ me…
FictionVery Best Mother
Dear Imaginary Daughter, You will be a horrible mother. I will inform you when you’re thirteen, the ripe age for making babies, because you’re…
FictionBereaved
My son Silas’s grief came as sleepwalking. It also came as nosebleeds. Fine one minute and the next screaming under a faucet of blood.…
FictionLast Word Dressed in a Gray Suit
We, the children, left our long shadows of childhood behind like rain-faded chalk on the sidewalk. The cement became root-buckled and uneven as we…
Non-fictionLove Springs from Descendants of the Personal Ad
When my thirty-year-old nephew told me he had, after a heart rending break up, begun to see some of the women he was meeting…
Poetry, PoetryBirds of Florida
As kids we saw hundreds of brown pelicans on pilings asleep like students at a lecture. Wading through Crystal Springs, we found fossils:…
Non-fictionDay 98449509735209
Journal, today was a long day. I woke up before four in the morning, which, even by spiritual-practice standards, is not normal. My neck…