Our Father

Arthur, our dad, told us all about who knew what and who to know. He was a big wheel in … More

InSignificance

On the board it says in gigantic letters:Save — Do Not Erase!double underlined, a mathematical equationsurrounded by a huge protective square,so … More

Solitaire

Two months since I left Wisconsin, packed up and moved home to Hawai‘i. The phone rings, and it’s her. I … More

Traveler’s Mileage Rewards

You regret it now, the random encounter you had while on vacation, when your genitals burn you awake in the … More

Hit and Run (the Mouth)

I spot her in my passenger sideview mirror. I’m stopped, waiting for a car and a pedestrian to clear. I … More

A Blue Christmas Is Certain

No amount of snow – and they have lots of it – can possibly hide every single blue thing in … More

An Unsuitable Way for You To End It With Me

I’ve been dumped many times, and one thing I’ll sayis that every time it happens it’s so awfully cliché.I hate … More

Driver-less Cars

I sit behind you at the stoplight, and I know you. The light turns green, but your head bows toward … More

Something Blue

She brought such joy under each moon, the air quiver of a cricket’s sharp chirp tingling, a pierce of air … More

Release

In the end, unwound and desperate, the cold head of the match gone dead, you are being drowned in darkness. … More

What Dreams May Come

A dream you dreamt. It’s the one that surprises you at noon the following day. Eating your sandwich or washing … More

Memento Mori

He realized relatively young in life that he would die. That knowledge comes to each of us at a different … More

Let’s Learn

On the bus we’re headed through the desert for the Red Sea,crossing a staggering, desolate landscape.The heat outside withers you … More

Holding On

Our group, struck by the sight of a medusa tree riding astride its monstrous barrow mounded base, myriad tentacle fingers … More

Cliché, Not a Cliché?

I don’t think I’ve ever said to someone that something I’ve heard has been refreshing.I’m not sure I know what … More

Only Ifs

One moment I’m lying on the ground staring at the sky,writhing in pain because I’ve broken my ankle, desperate,air harder … More

labor under old love’s illusion

unblinking at a new moonmoving thin skin outlinesilver sliver shimmering roundperfect, the odd center of it allmilky, muddled, blotchy, shadowedtaken all … More

Better Luck

Steel, maybe, lots of steel. Perhaps concrete by the boat-loads. Wood, really, I would rather not use. Impermanence has proved … More

Good Talk

Why curse? Would you pluck out your tongue,hang it on the wall as a hook for your black umbrella, onebattered … More

Getting To Know You

We held a first party yesterday, those of us who could finally attend.After all this time being apart so much, … More