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