Jumping Around
We watched news reports about Hurricane Isaac as it churned over Plaquemines Parish and spun toward the oil refineries of Baton Rouge. I flew to San… Read More »Jumping Around
We watched news reports about Hurricane Isaac as it churned over Plaquemines Parish and spun toward the oil refineries of Baton Rouge. I flew to San… Read More »Jumping Around
This is my first season in Louisiana. I came here in triple digit heat, sweat beading off my arms by just standing outside, an occupant… Read More »A Jew in Monroe, Louisiana
Idiot boss man who sat me down two weeks after my husband died and told me how I was a fuckup, I can see your fat… Read More »Wish You Were Here
Missing breakfast, I ventured downstairs to Kybele’s cafe in the hope of scoring coffee, treated to the same plus an amazing fruit platter of halved… Read More »Get Your Dervish On
Somewhere I lost a day. After being rescued from Ataturk Airport, I drifted in the street like a satrap exhausted by conquest of the Atlantic… Read More »Istanbul 2
Starched white suit, he wears an olive oil can crown on his head, carries challah as a scepter, a scepter mixes seeds blown from a… Read More »Goat
This is a story about Randy and June, who lived in the Land of Silence. Every day they walked five miles outside the city to… Read More »The Land of Silence
On a planet long ago, there was only one color. And that color was white. People had white buildings, white suits, food, and many more… Read More »Color Blind
The stone cannot understand the unkindness of water never stopping, never pausing to say something as inoffensive as “hello.” The water keeps moving toward a… Read More »Shenoa
The Shepherd scrapes the aluminum bowl on the concrete with her nose, a toy when it becomes empty. All night I hear her toss the… Read More »Exercise Yard