In This Circle I shall draw a great circle to summon you.  Within the circle, I shall place •  a lock of hair from the legendary Sh...

IN WHICH RESOLVE IS MADE TO ACT Take on some inner peace. Uninstall three applications today. Shake in bones after two cat-calls....

medicare i learned about dry shampoo when the nurses cleaned my father’s hair as he lay in the dead bed that we rented from the you-won...

PHOTOGRAPH OF MY FATHER, 1959    To have known you then – the summer of your senior year, posing bare chested, like Charles Atlas...

Her Burial it’d been decided her final resting place would be next to our great grandmother and was prepared with a cement va...

Love Taboos (Field Studies) We meet on a path. You run away and hide behind a tree. Later, at supper, you bring me food in a bowl but...

the future emojis are the same as the new emojis are the same as your life when the skate park closed no one was there to notice th...

                        On A Classroom Discussion of Langston Hughes’ “Harlem”                         “Or does it explode?”         ...

Discourse “I read the lines…you left for me.”--Wolfsheim Today, Socrates, I think of a day when at 17 I fulfilled Glaucon’s role: i...

A Lifetime in Dog Years We were married forever, it seemed like. Andrew was fun at first, but he just got more abusive as time went on...