For Children in Difficult Times
The old woman who lived in the bottom apartment called me. Her name was Basuma. Freckles covered her hands and arms and made her look like a ripe… Read More »For Children in Difficult Times
The old woman who lived in the bottom apartment called me. Her name was Basuma. Freckles covered her hands and arms and made her look like a ripe… Read More »For Children in Difficult Times
Horseshoe prints baked into mudin two directions, one hoof forward,another backward, wonderingif birds, plants, trees, can feel my rhythmstepping along the trail,a sense of relief… Read More »Hiking, a Million Covid Dead
I stare at the emergency button in the elevator, red and three times as large as the others, one other person collapsed against the back wall should… Read More »Rogue on the Ninth Floor
I was wearing my gray sweats and a yellow T-shirt protesting the closure of clinics, making a quick dash inside the market, low on eggs… Read More »Elaine from Seinfeld in the Parking Lot
The phone keeps going to email. I stay on the line waiting to hear your voice, your message saying you’ll get back to me as… Read More »Three Bronx Cheers for Text Messaging