Cooling

In the shade, he sat enjoying his shave iceunder a banyan tree, the sound of wavesrolling on, the wrinkled ocean … More

Glasses, November 24, 2021

We didn’t pass, I thought, when I was what, getting new glasses,so I didn’t see you, pretty sure, out the … More

I’m Listening Still

“I don’t see it that way,” you say, and I begin the wonder why.We sit cross legged on the floor … More

Under the Sun

The languor of summer days, a drop of sweat.Hit the napkin, plop on the word “miss.” It’sMezcal time here, and … More

This Was the Way

I left you there for just a moment, at the forest’s edge, before we began our journey. When I returned … More

On Leaving

As porous as air, sliced Thin, I fall between See you way over there perhaps, or Not, maybe hear your … More

And in our battle, they were taken

Both sides said a cross of little and big things to each other, and given the way the conflict played … More

Auld Lang Syne

He wasn’t a mean man. The lack of emotion that everyone saw in him, was just that. He no longer … More

Last Night

After sunset last night, I sat in the darkin my garage, listening to the sound of carsrunning up and down … More

On the Way

We’d become friends back in elementary school,she and I waiting for our dads to pick us up,we’d sit on the … More

What’s Black and White

Every morning my father brings in the newspaper, pours himself a cup coffee, then sits at the dining room table … More