When I was a four-year-old in Lincoln I catapulted over my tricycle handle bars and My right knee kissed sidewalk and came away with a...

We hid in one room, pouring white wine and hating our neighbors. I could hold a soldier’s stare like a bouquet, and held bouquets like...

Roe v. Wade and I were born two weeks apart in January 1973. We both came into the world in the middle of storms: mine was a blizzard and...

TODAY I got drunk in the shower turned up the heat as high as it would go before the water heater ran out, today I went to a bar with my...

When everyone began shopping online, Alice found herself doing it a lot. The hours she wasted this way—not buying but browsing, clicking...

Dry earth splits with repulsion There is a paradox in the crying shame that a dehydrated cell forgets how to soak It’s a crying shame...

At ten, they released me, these swordsmen, these magicians, pulling thread after thread of meaning out of their fine silk, tweed, and...

We could have stopped it, if the populations of all countries had taken the vaccines just as soon as they were available. We knew better....

If I was as black as Coal, With the Lorde’s confidence within me Would I be a happy soul? Could I inherit her? If I was Virginia white,...

Silence comes, After the storm, Creeping – Looks around, Assessing damage, What can be done? To take it back, The steel tipped fears, Of...

I can be patient but when my spirit someday seeps from out my corpse I know that it will slither toward suburbia and slip into the...

It was such a long time since the last rain that when it started the other night I thought it was a truck rumbling down the street, and...