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)… Read More »Mortal
Oakland
Leona Canyon Open Space Preserve
Down the stairs of my condominium and across Campus Drive to Leona Canyon Open Space Preserve. In April and May, I canter past an expanse… Read More »Leona Canyon Open Space Preserve
24-Hour Fitness
Ellipticals, treadmills, exercise bikes, pick my way through a forest of equipment gauge how close or far I wish to be from monitors displaying talk… Read More »24-Hour Fitness
Ghosts: Sequel 2
She pointed to the bronze and wooden statuettes. The fact that she didn’t think the ghost was my husband, interested me while at the same… Read More »Ghosts: Sequel 2
Ghosts: Sequel 1
My mouth dropped. Never had I expected her to utter those words. “Yes,” I said, feeling an immediate kinship with a woman who was standing… Read More »Ghosts: Sequel 1
Ghostly Relationships
Down a driveway of cement cobblestones, I talked to her about ghosts. Cam was my height, which means short, mostly black hair gathered in a… Read More »Ghostly Relationships
Pygmalion
two angels sit on steps regenerating the third a look-out for whatever got them into this mess— a rag of wings a bindle of legs… Read More »Pygmalion
Coupon Queen
A neighbor knocked on my door and asked for drug money; actually I don’t know she’s my neighbor at all except last year, a few… Read More »Coupon Queen
Lake Merritt Autumn Lights Festival, 2014
They appeared as strangers do from a stone pathway– a Moth Princess in a gauze gown, flaming calla lilies, electric fireflies, sea glass lamps shuddering in the light of… Read More »Lake Merritt Autumn Lights Festival, 2014
Robin Williams Plays a Homeless Man
what a Chabad past telephone poles to the top of the World Trade Tower brought me back down to earth thinking it wasn’t me who blew out the candles
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