Salty summer afternoons floated into ice cream nights. I was fifteen, and all we wanted to do was get to Long Branch for the Friday Night...

In a letter long ago (when people often wrote letters), Lisa reminded me (the way a good friend will) of what I needed to stay healthy....

A woman walks home alone at night One earbud is risky Two, out of the question If I am fat They won’t want to touch me I will be safe,...

my children, my children at this line of sand, water and brine salivate for your toes the tide is hungry we offer this hollow driftwood...

My crooked pinky has two stories: The time it broke, I dove to catch a foul ball in wet grass, bent it backward in three-leaf clover just...

The bar is so low the boys can’t limbo underneath it so they keep us in limbo instead. Patron saints of the bare minimum lowering the bar...

Her silky white skin glows under the sun With the deepest soul stealing eyes Her lips curve with each word spoken Her head tilts as she...

She steps into her long black shell, Gray buttoned blouse closed at her neck, Gold Star of David hidden well, Her heart alone can feel...

Do you see? Do you see how the sky breaks and weeps for you? How it births stars hoping to envelope you. And you unknowingly hold the...

My hand floats out the open window, a pieridae surfing the stream of heavy July air. The other hand fingers an organic condom in the...

The long and brilliant days of August 1960 are dwindling as a girl swings round and round a swaying metal pole that props up the striped...

Everything is fine as it appears on the surface. You are engaged, your home is furnished you look better than you’ve ever looked. But...