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  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Two Poems

    To hunker

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Look, there’s Mom with a cup of flour and a cup of time, staring into her blue bowl.

  • Two Poems

    might it not behoove us to retire, to pull away

  • Two Poems

    My brain is such a bully—wash your face, comb your hair,

  • Sitting on an Old Bedspread Under an Oak Tree, Watching My Son’s Soccer Practice

    For reasons I can’t explain

  • Always a Woman, a War, or a Lost Cause

    That hunched those men over Zorro’s

  • The Occupant Imagines the House as a Great Fish & Eight Things…

    It has already swallowed a century, each year a silver iridescent scale.  For eight, she has lived in its belly,

  • At Arlington and Boys

    After the gunfire, the tact of “Taps.”

  • SECRET AGENT | GUARDIAN OF THE EGG

    A long armed monkey lurks by the far

  • Two poems by Muyaka bin Haji, (1776—1840)

    When she lays eggs, they’re not nurtured even if brooding them succeeds.

  • Meeting Shakespeare

    I met Shakespeare in a hotel room downtown.