We began and ended with city benches, One in the heat of summer, where jackets took up space in forgotten about closets. It was easy and...

into my small studio. you scan the room. you make sure you haven’t forgotten anything: key, wallet, phone you shyly discard the condom...

The stranger appeared in the doorway drawing on a pipe. Between his fingers on the stem, I see the Dunhill dot, and on one raised pinkie,...

Ashley was the prettiest girl in my first grade class. She had shiny, chestnut blonde hair - a shade bestowed upon her directly by the...

Everything you need to know about women, you can learn by rolling a cigarette. But I don’t know how to roll a cigarette. You also know...

The truth is I’m so lonely, And the bells on the church ring Like a telephone, And I walk the tin can wire between days, And smell the...

We build our Eden—plank by plank, stone by stone—plotting, designing, hammering, lifting, digging, and planting our private, peaceful...

A shadow fell across my lap, darkening the page of my book, and I knew it was Priscilla. That’s how it always was with Priscilla. She’d...

She was pissed. Livid. Though the tang of salty air kept her at bay, and quite literally. Inhaling sea-breeze, feeling the air...

Be truly joyful, like one who, though his house has burned down, feels a deep need in the soul to begin building anew. – Martin Buber The...

You carved my body from soil with a knife but the earth, she doesn’t forget who she’s home to Swords and dismemberment sing in my blood...

The realities that live in our head are our own worst nightmares that we can’t wake up from. A droplet turns into a whole tsunami, and...