Writing
2026
Instructions for Teaching Rain to Read Radiology Films
No one remembers who noticed first:
the rain pausing above hospitals,
waiting.The Cartographer of Vanishing Organs
The anatomy atlas was never wrong.
It was only early.
Each night, after the hospital emptiedSmiley Companions
First published in Nocturne Magazine, 2022Mrs. Moon looked forward to watching church service on TV every Sunday morning. Not only…
Arrangements
You bravos had better be ready to fight.—Warren Zevon, My Ride’s Here
I’m thinking bagpipes. No, not bagpipes.Too much hassle and too damn much…
They know my favorites.And if they beat me out the door, a…AGAINST ERASURE
Louie gunned down in his shop,
Boris struck and flung to asphalt by the drunk driver,
and now,Erleichda
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
—Albert Einstein
It’s time, child, to talk about the feathers —Per Stirpes
I stand as one, but I come with ten thousand.
~Maya Angelou
And now comes you, child,Change of Seasons
Summer south of the border
iguanas pose nude
adobe-lined citiesA Language Searching for a Home
My mother tongue, my birth language,
is far from dead, yet everyone
reassures me it’s dying.Buenos Aires In and Out
In
Out
Just outside the gatesThe First Last Kiss
A slight haze blurred the skyline, and the expanse of lights faintly reflected in the…
Debaser
“You’re here because you’re dead.”The clerk at the hotel desk, dressed in a red uniform with white-trimmed lapels, spoke in an…
Duty
The downstairs den glows with late-night TV.
My mother settles into Doctor Zhivago
after a day of caring for the six of us.A Forgotten Christ
On “Christ Cleansing the Temple”, Wood by El Greco, c. 1570
We surely must follow Christ, learn from him,
unquestionable Master of love and tolerance.Stumbling, Pitfalls, and Spells
‘Yo no creo en brujas, pero que las hay, las hay’
(Galicia’s cruel saying)
There was a thief whose bad luck set him