Monsters

My neighbor across the fence says,“They just keep adding onto it,day after day, week after week, month after month.It never … More

The Big Island of Hawaiʻi

I’ve been many placesfrom Antarctica to the top of Norwaybut I always tell folks who askafter having sung the praises of … More

compare

contrasttoo easy a clichéapples and orangesboth fruitshave seedsgrow on treesunlike moneyhe sayshanding over my weekly breadbreathing hard for the work … More

The Last Words of Love

The love of where you findthat it you findthat ityou least expect I’ve heard of that soar at the finding … More

The Procession

I saw a long line of vehicleson Vineyard Boulevard yesterdaymaybe 25 cars, including a black hearseall of them with their … More

Chronic Disease

My family went to the doctorOne by one by one by oneFirst my motherThen my fatherNext my sisterI last. The … More

A Terabyte of Memory

Again this morning a tinybread crumb of a voiceI hear inside me hope It is that small me, sure as … More

Midwest Aloha

Four fresh faced white Wisconsin farm ladsmaybe raised on this morning’s milk and cheese and home churned butterrocket their beat-up … More

A Killing

I’m sitting at the sink, sharpening my father’s old knives and all of a sudden, out of the corner of … More