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PoetryA Sad Tale with No Moral
Growing up in Phoenix I thought exhaust fans in other people’s bathrooms were put there to remove the smells & I asked my dad…
PoetryThe Business of Life and Death
It seems inconceivable, reading on a couch on a Sunday afternoon, that one day I’ll die and my decades of warmth will release back…
PoetryI watch the cartoon cat eat the cartoon fish
the fish dances around the cat’s sternum shakes ribs with its five-pronged fins not an animated gill out of place I turn off the…
PoetryI’m going to go look for a job tomorrow
I sit here, nowhere a place i was born in but it has changed and i am a stranger now, somewhere i try to…
PoetryThe Whole Day Went Dark
my testosterone has been chopped medically castrated by injection last week in prep for radiation treatments I couldn't hold my water today and had…
PoetryNo Sky for an Atheist
Last night I went down to the lake but the sky was what I really went for, so last night I went down to…
PoetryDragonflies
Always, there are voices that come, unchecked as the sound of water, lapping in the stone basin of the night fountain Some magnanimous, as…
PoetryCOUNTRY LIFE
Buying this ample ranch house in the country, I dreamed I could rescue you, my husband, from the nursing home where I couldn’t visit…
PoetryCity of peace
I am a cupbearer, offering my better half her morning mug of coffee. She asks, Why is your face sad today? I cannot take all…
PoetryAccept no substitute
Stuart died. It happened at our book club. Vinyl Café had been off the air for a few years but seemed like a fresh…
PoetryParking Space
I prefer to wander, not stay confined when science says it’s OK to venture. But then I stumble finding a man, half-dead, ensconced in…