Writing
2026
Significance
The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is thatthey were insignificant animals with no…
Pain
“On a scale of one to ten?” the doctor asks. Not good at estimating, I say…
It Is Important to Understand
Everyone you meet is suffering: heart breaks, body aches, …
My (Bleep) Like a Night-Blooming Cereus
this prolific southern semi-tropical plant whose petals beg a magic recall of flowers each year for…
Self-Indulgence
Let me pose a question. If you, by chance rode the cross-town train to the downtown…
The Coriolis Effect
My wife doesn’t laugh at my jokes anymore, and I’m not sure if that’s because they’re…
The End of the Week in Me
Dazzlingly authentic first thing in the morning,this nude scene is justified, if the curtains cannot censorNo…
Heading for the Flavor Core
No more silken circumstances,my relations are going methodical, getting credentialedno future contacts dreamed up,
Just Passin’ Through
Missing:Old Spice, your beer can collection, hours, tomatoes, my mother’s red lamp,friends, manzanita, glasses, warm hands:…
You Don’t Know Me
United Transcontinental Flight 117 raced from a dawning sun. Descending, the aircraft surged, then throttled back.…
Meandering Matters
After another duplicate banishment of sunlight,the courtyard fills with metal cans scraping along the concreteechoes of…
A Pledge to Meet in September
Boneless and beautiful, the equinox morning seems readyand open for restoring balance, a moment of clarity,maybe…
Golgotha
It was the talk of the town, and there were no two ways about that. A…
Off-Brim
Oomph! 1 Aloft a sky-rise ascribed to a sunrise, a head lay on a dweller’s pillow.…
Homewood
The house was new then, and newness itself was a kind of promise nobody had yet…