i’ve got a jam that’ll make you go tappin’ clappin’ whistlin’ stars and sunsets-- a sticky song a nightingale envies a refrain ringin’...

The day dissolves in my mouth like cotton candy finding it’s peaceful end Hesitant to believe that this never ending day would actually...

Marigolds tied tightly together morning dew dripping from every petal. I picked them for the man on the corner whose needles lay...

Growing up, and by that I mean my emo-middle school era, I was obsessed with the “forbidden.” It really wasn’t that scandalous, it just...

Cooper River Park, Cherry Hill, NJ for my mother I was standing with the river rats, everyone saying what state of marriage or divorce...

I don’t think I have a motherland, just a strange monster in my imagination, stitched together with a Frankeinsteinian arrogance to...

1. We all share the same reason for being here. The chairs are arranged in a circle. The doctor seats herself in one of them. The plastic...

After Mary Ellen Mark At the Alano Club, a child of seven, I remember my mother sharing with a group of strangers and family that the...

In front of my living room window, on a splendid May afternoon, warm and sunny, a fat black crow rapturously caws over its good fortune....

You were never afraid of him when he was smiling How could you be? The curve of his lips, begging yours to curve as well The creases...

Like a knife sliding down a slab of butter that’s been sitting out in a counter on a hot day My brown eyes melt into your green. We hold...

The room was dark, perpetually, except for a single table lamp; it wasn’t enough to make Angelic feel safe. She remembered the night sky,...