we leave on our Christmas tree lights and outdoor strings as well hung in a swinging rhythm along the porch railing blinking colors write notes
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If I had a dollar for every pill, I’d still be medication poor. What does not kill me, makes me stranger, dizzy as fizzy water.
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I spent the night with Marilyn Monroe on Christmas. Since I was in labor, I didn’t enjoy it much. The house held a panoply of
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My father was in a Florida hospital drugged up to mask the pain of the cancer that marched through him like Sherman through Atlanta during
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It sits on my bed stand, water emptying eternal as the hands baring the cup which fills & refills the bowl made by loving. Inside
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I can’t find warmth. It’s not our altitude, The Alps’ substantial snow that fashions shapes, New powder coating life, replenished nights — — When bodies
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Good gifts come without strings attached. By strings, I do not mean ribbon or twine but the unseen binding that frequently entangles the Giver and
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Thoughts, desires, emotions Carefully wrapped and stowed under the tree Fear in its black box Jealousy tied up in green tissue paper With a bow
Read MoreFirst winter break in college. I am back at home in Chinatown from the University of Southern California, having picked up a few table manners
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The first time I saw him, he took my breath away. He’d seemed so young. I knew that really, he couldn’t be more than five
Read MoreShould I spill about the good ones? Before the family died. When Christmas bulbs were big and grew hot and metal-clipped to the branches of
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Startled for a moment, when the feeling combined all its elements into a single thought, a single warm, reassuring thought, a single hot, unsettling thought.
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My mind is still gripped to late summer love Pink cotton candy in our sunset sky Reflections of dim downtown lights above Riverbank rocks and
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As she sat at her desk, pondering the screen in front of her, the spreadsheet swam. Cecily knew she was distracted, not flummoxed. She could
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