Carpool

I’m not sure why you and I called it a carpool. It wasjust we two, and I always drove. There … More

Soundproof

For the first two years in Madison, I live in Susan Bradford Hall. It’s on Greek Row. Once a dorm … 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

Haven’t you learned anything? she says

What is it you see out there?  What do you hear? My woman standing at the window staring out into the … More

Gaze

I squint, and even though I oddly see you tiny and distorted through the peephole, I can make out her … More

Coming to the Center

We find ourselves entering a corridor of language, she from the eastern door, and I from the west.  We take steps, … More

The Flip Side

The music stopped, but we kept dancing.  We could hear the melody going on, even though the musicians were packing up. … More

Choice

The consequences of confused minds would have bound us in that spot.  We’d just found majority, still too young to live … More

One Two One

We park and she says nothing; it’s getting dark. I follow in her hunting, block after block, down one street, … More

A Good Listener

I could smell it on him the moment he entered the room.  Even more than usual.  My eyes began to water. You’d … 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

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

Do Us Part

June, they say, is for weddings, and lovers often schedule their exchange of vows accordingly. Some couples may not know … 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

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

We’ll Meet Again (for AT)

It’s April, the cruel one, and still heavy jacket chilly.Madison in April sometimes feel like mid-winter.I recall those odd days … More

Maybe You Can’t Fix What I Have

Broken when the US mail chokes how my letters take so much time is it there yet read it immediately … More

Love’s Countdown

In the beginning there was inertia,and inertia led, as you might expect,to nothing, so what had beensomethingness became nothingness: Take-out … More

It Felt So Good

That Sony radio’s cheap black leather strapjust barely tied the music to my wrist.So poorly made I feared it just … More