These days, I am shucking time, running my hands over every moment, I feel them as they pass and I ask each one- are you the Now where it begins? So far, they are silent, I let them fall beneath me. And because I am made to wait, I have made contact with more […]
On the eve of the eclipse, she slept with her head downhill, and woke to the sound of woodpeckers chiseling their faces into the forest, and, when she rose to look for them, she found, instead, a green plump grasshopper, which she showed to another camper, through the thin screen of his tent, with a […]
Outside my office window- a flat patch of land where a home once stood no shadow, fresh dirt, I cant remember it, exactly. Outside my office window- two police cars lights flashing, sirens off black tarp, solid form still body-shaped, but still. Outside my office window- a big semi truck from the deconstruction site that […]
The moment is… a kiss and not a word, a what and not a why, is you without your story, unscripted. The moment is the drop of water you can taste on your tongue as you dive into the sea- you in the ocean, the ocean in you; is the chorus of a flash rainstorm […]
At the event when I couldn’t help but stand up and talk too much, I opened myself up to judgment in order to speak the burning necessity that was bubbling up my throat, determined to be shared. Taking my seat for the forth or fifth last time, a woman two rows back lifted her head and her […]
Some days I wake up to the alarm- groggy and irritated, I crack my mind open just enough to unsheath the eraser end of my consciousness, gruffly scrub out one or two or three of the items on the to-do list that my optimistic prior self had assigned, and press “snooze.” Some days I wake up restored- […]
When it started hard to say Couple hundred yesterdays Simple system growing cracks Auto business, off the tracks Getting mine means getting gone Whites flight from the red line zone Money tighter, feel the strain Pull the plug, choke the drain Safety net becomes swiss cheese poor is spreading like disease Trickle down […]
They used to call it downsizing -but that wasn’t very popular- So then they called it “Right Sizing” -but everyone knew it was the same thing- And then they started calling it “Future City” -but still we knew better. And so, they didn’t say anything. Silently they issued yellow tax foreclosure notices And water shut-off […]
Written in honor and memory of friend and colleague Steven Kolberg, whose battle with cancer and and dance with life ended today. We drove to that strange state packed tight in the car and buckled in with greeting cards and a somber air. There in the back yard, I was surprised that he could see […]
I shouted today Alone on the bridge, coasting downhill at a clip I wailed- lungs taut- as loud as I could. I smiled to myself and called out again Just trying to let it out.
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