observe with hungry wolf eyes, surveil. interrogate. bolt upright 3am experience smell | see | taste | touch | hear process. ...

I never really listened to Third Eye Blind in high school or college. They were that band that played in the background at dorm parties...

“But the turmoil they experience isn’t who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.” ― Robert Koger, Death's Revenge I wish I...

Some think Picasso a star, so go for him, or it could be Leonardo who made Mona Lisa smirk in his famous work, perhaps Banksy, as popular...

Larry pushed the dice aside, grabbed the handle of the empty pitcher, cursed his bad luck and my good: his turn to buy. Along the bar...

Ash of mountain Silt river bed in toes Rain pelting my bare back I emerge from jungle Bright light, orange glow Thick air chokes Unable...

What if I’m so fat I won’t fit through the door? Will they still like me? I lost 35 pounds on Dr. Frank’s protein-sparing liquid fast. On...

Hitting a snooze button an archaic term, like hanging up or alack, alee, alow, amain, anent, anon Freaking-A, Lord, gramercy. Torturing...

Sonoma light rotates morning to noon olive branches sway meatheads in the pool drink vodka lemonade bees work the lavender the wind drops...

520 Years after their Expulsion, Spain Welcomes Back Sephardic Jews-- Philadelphia Inquirer Headline Should I return to Seville, where my...

In this yellow season the first of spring the road from Millerton winds and winds, an expanse of rolling hills, fields beautiful even in...

Looking down from my spot on the bluff I saw the ribbon of river shift from light to shadow, dodging the sun as a sailboat made its way...

elegy underwater i used to think you an ocean; i was always floating breathless near your coast. you pulled me under in a way that felt...

…that once upon a time was time enough for us, back in the day when clocks were all beside the point, yet there were only clocks to tell...

Overdue I leaned back on the lawn lounge chair, and its metal leg gave way. Rolled to my knees. Edged across the grass to where my...

I live life without a wallet like a nudist or a dog. I wear my hair up and my toe is always testing the temperature. Sometimes I feel the...

Spring Cleaning Clearing out a cupboard reveals teeth in a box like sacred relics, old baby bones, broken and cracked with age. Hoary...

her heart is her sleeve diaphanous sinew home and breathing her heart cloaks her purple and embroidered with veins stitchery of bloodline...

The way a deer will walk facing the wind to catch the scent of predators The augury of wrens and a French word for fire Sinistre Here is...

Prairie Restoration "me in place and the place in me" -- Seamus Heaney The grasses and flowers growing in this park sink their roots into...