and the other day there was a power outage. Everything is going out and not telling us when they’ll be back. I am convinced the storm was...

It’s only jetsam if you throw it overboard yourself. But when the water’s high, none of this is voluntary: the things you couldn’t move...

she always tried to clean up dried eggs and pancake battered across the stove top of the dresser dust-covered months since we had enough...

Childhood is found matter, light and dark in turn, pointillistic, the way things shade, shine forth, take in, the long breath of those...

Sage walls meet gold hues, Sunlight awakens the sage forest at my window, Sage bridal dresses, my gold filigree, Jade crystals, cracked...

Salty summer afternoons floated into ice cream nights. I was fifteen, and all we wanted to do was get to Long Branch for the Friday Night...

In a letter long ago (when people often wrote letters), Lisa reminded me (the way a good friend will) of what I needed to stay healthy....

A woman walks home alone at night One earbud is risky Two, out of the question If I am fat They won’t want to touch me I will be safe,...

my children, my children at this line of sand, water and brine salivate for your toes the tide is hungry we offer this hollow driftwood...

My crooked pinky has two stories: The time it broke, I dove to catch a foul ball in wet grass, bent it backward in three-leaf clover just...

The bar is so low the boys can’t limbo underneath it so they keep us in limbo instead. Patron saints of the bare minimum lowering the bar...

Her silky white skin glows under the sun With the deepest soul stealing eyes Her lips curve with each word spoken Her head tilts as she...