Today I found the path she had so long worked to clear swallowed up by prairie grasses. I’d watched her felling trees and grinding stumps,
Read MoreA mosaic is forming, A sprinkle of unplanned smiles, an equal amount of denial One part butterflies, an elephant to complement the rest A generous
Read MorePhotos are the currency of our online affair. Brinkmanship. A coy smile quickly progresses to a yielding neck becomes bared breasts. We up the ante
Read MoreA party for my wife’s 34th birthday. I dance with the woman I crazily love. Is this why I threw the party? Back-up fiddles swirl:
Read MoreMartyr me on the first day of autumn when morning tastes of salt and death and the
Read More“Isn’t this great, sweetie, inside Cinderella’s Castle? You love her story about the glass slipper I’ve read to you a hundred times.” David pointed. “See
Read MoreLast name was Notario never knew their first names. I was a cashier summer job restaurant by the Bay. He would come in first take
Read MoreI 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
Read MoreWhen 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
Read MoreSmall things: not returning a phone call right away, not offering early enough to set tables at the spaghetti feed for the homeless, not filling
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreSpread 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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