My dog gave up coffee for Lent, experienced withdrawal with blinding headaches. I gave him a dog coat for his walk at the lake. It was below freezing. His exhaled breath like smoke signals for ancestors in dirt-black forests.
Day: November 16, 2025
They’re forecasting solar storms again on or about the 10th of the month to last several weeks; will disturb normal communications for everyone on the planet. There was the total solar eclipse, then the Super-Moon partial eclipse, then the
Amid a riot of pink and coral, a lily raises its tiger head in the median strip as I wait to cross the street. My mother wouldn’t have liked the jazzy combo, the too-bright colors. She sniffed as we
Ted suffered a series of strokes in his sixties, resulting in slurred speech and a left shoe whose sole scraped over every surface. Ted was a visual artist who worked with me at the sewage plant, but still needed
colonizer, you have taken my tongue and i can only express my grief through the words imposed onto me before i had even opened my eyes colonizer, i cannot take your tongue and will it skillfully like my white
i swing the wand in practiced strokes as my niece laughs in glee when bubbles rain down from cloudless skies i want to believe in magic like she does forget how the solution was made or the science behind
I’m not good at holding still. I was born early. From that moment on, I have always been in a hurry to – I don’t know – just get to the next thing, or place, or event or whatever
Gembira pushed away the twig of honeysuckle that had thwacked her in the face. She also pushed away her desire to turn back. She wanted to do this, and on some level, she needed to do this. Blinking her
He glanced toward right field before stepping into the batter’s box, thinking more of Gloria than Babe Ruth. There she was, sitting on her front porch, just across the street from that short, wrought iron right-field fence, wearing that
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