Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
It’s happened a lot lately, flash across my line of vision, then gone. At first I thought of glare, reflection off my frames. But I know better. I dreamed last night of lovers, and this bird has a message. He’s pulling something raw and alive. I thought they ate only Read more
Todd was the across-the-street neighbor who would take my garbage bin to the street after my husband left. Todd was older than me and had a live-in partner who was older than him. He was the kind of guy who talked with you at the mailbox about boring stuff like Read more
We met in Paris many years ago now Right away she befriended me, I’m not sure how. Twelve years difference, but I felt I knew her. Where she came from I couldn’t at first be sure. I overheard her say to a student, “Je suis belge,” And I was mystified, Read more
Adios (sung on tremolo) Evelyn – Why are you not A sun-carved shape Predictable as a Windowless stone I could hug you into my Bones Even if your hair might lure with serpents I could kiss your feet for the longest minute Relish without a second of hesitation Print me Read more
When I watch you, and I mean… watch you Like a stalker at poetry readings I am at first engaged, noticing the enunciation You do, the measured beat, the drum like inevitability Of your cascading words And then I sink into you I feel selfish, like the words are for Read more
after Priscilla C. At the end of August, swallows make their dip and turn in the descending wind, cross the lake’s turbid water, where a killer, both drunk and aroused (the one she met on a dating app), dumped her on the side of the road, poured kerosene Read more
