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PoetryA Familiar Place
A small hermit crab walked on her hand, she gently cupped and closed. Hermit crab moved house that day, but still it was a…
PoetryA Touch of Lace
If hardened eye and calloused hand are able to perceive a rim of gold around a plate, a touch of lace upon a sleeve,…
PoetryNothing but White
A man whose heart is a time bomb says leave the house, breathe some fresh air, meet people, take chances. When he was younger…
PoetryCoffee & Podcasts
these days these nights a hammer pounds against my head after each death in your sea my tongue is sour neck & back needs…
PoetryAs it Was in the Beginning, Is Now and Ever Shall Be
They’re 85 walk daily he holding her hand. She stops frequently transfixed by far off. Fusses with her scarf until she’s done. Even now…
PoetrySolstice
The moon and I have time tonight to give the year a fair review, to talk about the times that we were bloodied, halved,…
PoetryI Ask You
If a person flies off a barstool into the open arms of the floor are they not paying the cost for taking a shortcut…
PoetryPeople
Falling in love is like swallowing grains of sand to recover the pebble you skipped across the pond by your childhood home, the ripples…
Poetrylog pile
slowly it diminishes withdrawing toward the wall and ground each one taken without thinking until before you know it all that is left are…
PoetryPenthouse
I had lunch yesterday in an apartment overlooking the neighborhood in which I grew up and now I know how God feels
PoetryMyrna in the Checkout Lane
Myrna was standing in a long line waiting to checkout when a lady in her early 60’s dropped her cane & it turned out…