The Conversation

My phone. I carry it everywhere.Sometimes I think I am the sanest person I know of.Then I think about Snowden.Don’t ask … More

All I want

This is neon lit backstreetsbeckoning tourists to ogle belly-dancers,choose the one who will do more than simply shimmy.We arrive at … More

We sip tea at a long table, waiting for another Taoist monk to speak to us. This will be the … More

He walks around the valley every morning,deep in composition beneath the shadows of trees and cliffs,a circuit of crystallization, mile … More

Wow. This is a way too much longer walkthan my sister told me it would be.Maybe I turned wrong somehow?Maybe I … More

May the insignia of the light they cast substantiate me,driving my aim for words written to convey everythingI can glean, … More

My grandparents, all four,they bless me as I come into this world,I bless them as they go. Go to college, … More

When the moon whispersBelladona, dance,lighting her with its slightest touch,even if the wind is barely there,still a smallest of breezes … More

She stands alone, a little hunched, a bump slowly reshaping her back,this empress of her mom and pop shave ice … More

She said things, at an early point in the relationship, as though sometimes she were saying them to someone else. I … More

I love, at first, that you commented on everything indiscriminately,pointed at this or that, attached sounds to whatever ideasran around … More

It was a real page-turner. The way he described walking down the avenue on Saturday afternoons made the whole scene light … More

When you taste it now, you can’t believe why,but there was a time you actually enjoyed it,how on earth, when … More

I am not a very courageous man. In fact, as I grow older, I feel as if I’m becoming more … More

I think I remember when I didn’t have to possess things.It took seven years to figure out what to dowith … More

I hear my laughing, a laughter I can’tduplicate anymore, rolling down fifty years,the clink of glasses, raucous toastingto whatever lay … More

The stage is empty, uncrowded, the clipped smiles werebriefer than the blink of a glassy-eyed battle fatiguethat runs deeper than … More

Sometimes when I’m sick, I think I liveso far away from the world that I’m on the other side of … More

Once I was convicted, sentenced to be a prisoner of love,I did my time willingly, reformed my ways gladly,mended with … More

Tomorrow you will fly half way around the world, and with layovers, it will take youjust over 48 hours take … More