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Wandering in the Desert

I want to wake up each morning without remembering your voice, how we used to wrap around together in one invisible seam, a velcro from head to toe. I want

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Mortal

The way forward is with a broken heart. –Alice Walker (With thanks to Elizabeth Bishop, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Sinatra and W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan) I was the myth you

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Stopper

There’s a stopper in my heart Where my love used to be. It doesn’t stop anything.

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New York City Transportation

An hour-and-a-half ride on the subway from east side to west. Always waiting, finding a place between riveted posts, a light in the tunnel, I hope it’s a train, hot

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Expiration Date

She was excited to have three separate appointments in one day. The first, to get her eyes checked following cataract surgery, then on to her regular physician  who was going to

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Junipero Serra

Along the marijuana scented streets of San Francisco State University, evening classes, students clump along Holloway Avenue, smokers come out from behind parking meters that stand as centurions. Houses glitter

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