Sometimes a love doesn’t seem hardly enough

to get me through this world whole Sometimes it’s just enough to get me out of bedbut by midday I’m … More

My corn grows high

in five large black plastic pots on my lānai,watering, and fertilized with care,I am satisfied, bearthe slight tremorin my hands … More

This is the way it should be for everyone who passesswing us back, some yearning mote of feather dust floatsin … More

I need to buy tennis balls, I thought, go upand say it’s a gift, because, you know, sir,I’ve heard they … More

I look back on them all long and longfor what I might have had in my mind’s eyesee red skirts … More

I can see us holding those little white pleated paper cups,smell the yellow pineapple cubes, icy cold, the perfect mid-morning … More

The second thing I remember is my 4th birthday party,five red wax candles burning on a pink cake, the extra one … More

I hear, see, grow the silence of the fields, the farmershaving retreated into their farmhouses as graves,the long acres of … More

Last night I dreamed I danced on my Norwegian side.I’m ashamed to say, I’ve no idea what authentic Norwegian dance … More

Stuck here at home, unable to see my family anymore,lying in bed at night I think, with short, shallow breaths … More

I’m watching through the running glass window, an old one from 1926.I see my father, his figure slightly distorted in … More

I wouldn’t get caught dead in Dubai, so probably then in the endthe tallest building I’ll ever have visited in … More

Benevolent Time sat cross-legged on the mantle smiling,saying she’d push it over, her index finger often fakingflicking it, when, to … More

It’s a storm brewing a good distance away, hit or pass me questions,perfectness of June moons, the chaos of a … More

See here, this is her jigsaw puzzle, given to me early on, that from the firstI can remember, I began … More

I stand at my stove, arms against the dark glass surface, watching the water in a pot.I’m waiting for a … More

You must be right-handed. I blush, turn my head and give her a sideways glance. Oh no, not that. I … More

I hear that gentle knock at the door, my teacher Time, again.She comes around, and we sit together on my … More

You can’t turn around and follow your sweetbread and malasada crumb trail back in time.Frighteningly, friend, it’s been sucked up … More

I sing a fall chill wind exploring the corners here, on the downside of town,the sun unable to peer into … More