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PoetryLight the Candle
At 15 I would stare at the spaces between stars --much as I did when I was younger, gazing…
PoetryWhen we finally met
This isn’t going to work you know You’re short and that dog But I go to your house Don’t sit so close You’re pale…
PoetryThe Voodoo of Doll Shoes
when she came home crying I knew you were deadafterwards at the market I would pick up pot roasts chickens a bag of onionstry…
PoetryWHY YOU SHOULDN’T BE A POET
*you wanna eat *you like sunsets a lot *your mom said she’d buy your book * you like to read * you know you…
PoetryHolding the Center
The day I learned of my student’s suicide, I walked five miles, the first three to remember him, the last two to feel his…
FictionWe Drove to LA from Phoenix in 1965 to Buy French Fries
Both of us had taken our parent’s cars for joyrides a handful of times before we were old enough to drive. We helped each…
PoetryJanuary thinking
Custom's a deep pond flat reflective surface but deep in dark, wet infinity purpose sits a silty bed. To wash a loved one's limbs…
PoetryIn Three Parts
The Opening Up here, just above the peak, time percolates, bursting forth the seconds and minutes fresh as beads of dew on velvet moss.…
PoetryA Big Pit
1. A Good Hiding Long curved drive from main gate like a rich house. Six Security guards sit in an old building, play cards,…
PoetryThank you
..for the holding of doors, for the genial face on the other side of a window, for the waitress with a smoker's voice who…
PoetryI’m Going to Let Myself Go
Three avocados rooting in the window and a Meyer lemon cake on the sideboard are yesterday's lessons of contrition. I tell whoever will listen,…