I am dreaming, or maybe not: I am in a snowstorm, white and eerie, my feet are frozen, and the lady in the burned-out cabin won’t allow the heat of the dull sun into my mind filled with desires
Category: Spring 2022
You have always been the kind of person to tell a toddler your hands are smaller than theirs. As I have grown taller and more elegant and my hands have remained smaller than yours I have come to the
Early morning I walked to the hardware store, then did concrete work. Filled erosion gaps around the stoop, patched shift cracks in the back wall. Messed with words this afternoon. Hoped a few shy figments from sleep would drift
Surely includes undressing in front of a filmy Mirror. Nude, you separate Phoenician blinds & witness a snowflake disappear into a puddle. Later, you strike up a conversation at the grocery. What IS the secret to determining The ideal
Falsely fresh, discarded deep into the earth’s dust. There she lies cradled by my depth, each crack, and crevice filled by dirt-crusted distinct hands. Flung unceremoniously into the deep, her scent is galling. Plagued with the cloying call to
Chip DePalma. If there was any man more qualified to serve as host, The Producers didn’t know one. And it wasn’t because Chip knew anything about the embalming process or the correct temperature for cold chambers or how to
I pause to let a blackbird dart by and leap into a budding hawthorn tree with its family. Two freshman girls overtake me on the winding path, talking loudly about a party tonight, starts in a few hours, should
Darren parked in the only available parking spot on the street, about two doors down from Chelsea’s house. He cracked the window and lit a joint. He knew that smoking weed in broad daylight was a precarious idea in
Since this is a story about a road trip, I feel obligated to mention we weren’t supposed to take this road trip. About a month before my college move-in, my dad bought three plane tickets from San Francisco to
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