Everyone is leaning forwards
as though the wind is dragging them
backwards through the day,
but the cars are Read More »
This is not a story anyone wants to hear, so I’ll give it to you slow. You let me know when you’ve heard enough.
My cousin Johnny wasn’t really my cousin. He was the stepson of my aunt, my mother’s older sister who had had a bad first marriage and rather than marry again, decided she’d be unfashionable for the Read More »
They were too overwhelmed by the sight of decaled media vans and fiending paparazzi rising up the hillside, one cocked elbow at a time.
A man from Hong Kong, along with a woman from Denmark and a teenager from Paramus, New Jersey all watched the spectacle from their cell phones as they each spent one more minute never meeting one Read More »
I fear being like her and I am like her
the critical part that wants to hurt the other
render them helpless and needy
no one measuring up, everything falling short Read More »
See the crane sleeping
It’s neck sways when the wind blows
Please don’t fall on me
Homeless Jack mines gems Read More »
Instead of thinking about Sonny, his traveling companion wishes she were in Spain. How far of a drive is it from Granada to Barcelona?
Twenty miles south of Fresno a sign says Visalia 24 miles. Sonny pilots the car with dirty hands, a torn shirt, an unintentional beard, last year’s haircut and a diet of ice and ketchup packets. He looks over Read More »
