I grew up on a farm that stretched a mile in all directions. The stench of wet manure after a heavy rain, the chafe of
Read MoreIn my earliest memory, my three or maybe four-year-old-self sits on the cement steps of my first home in a shimmery dress, the color of
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When we were kids an alley separated our houses, you were the new girl; all exotic from the city, your dad didn’t have calluses; called
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Small things: not returning a phone call right away, not offering early enough to set tables at the spaghetti feed for the homeless, not filling
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The dust settles, a fragile ceasefire in the kitchen light, the air gritty with unsaid apologies, yesterday’s words like shrapnel lodged beneath a skin of
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Spread the words On the wings of Aeon Cuddle the skin Aglow with the sun When the tip of the spear Is my kith and
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A sound check ignites a flame In a distance of incendiary nights Back and forth the ringing breaks As the dawn announces a new appetite
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The first thing I noticed was the improper knot on his tie. He chose a large knot. It doesn’t fit. Every other man at the
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1. Morning has broken like a child opening the bedroom door. You wear my Red Sox sweatshirt, the one with the ratty collar. My pillow
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I burned all her letters. After 45 years, I burned all her letters. She was in love with love. I was in love with her.
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I’m spreading thin-cut marmalade on thick-sliced Mother’s Pride when you slam out of our High Barnet bathroom in your dressing gown. Although you insist with
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Almost a year from the last harvest moon when we had to close mami’s house The towel inherited from her linen closet a mix of
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I am almost as old as my dad was when he died. How young does that make him? It doesn’t matter – he’s still dead.
Read More“We won’t be seeing Grandpa anymore,” Dad said. His Texas Ranger mustache twitched, as if it regretted letting the words out of his mouth.
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“Naked?” I asked. “Well, yeah.” I glanced around the sparsely populated bistro before leaning close to Sam. “I’d be nervous. I don’t know …” “I
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