“It’s okay! I’m right here!” Lynn says. Her five-year-old daughter June whimpers. June has float wings on, but she keeps eyeing the...

I invited my neighbor Miss T. out to dinner for her 100th birthday. “Anyplace you want to go,” I said. Tiny and trim, surely under a...

it had to be filled with water in the early years the ocean left its ridge marks on every bluff and reached into each valley with a...

I know life has ups and downs, Swings from high to low, but now… I feel stuck in limbo Hung in midair like a pendulum That has lost its...

My seat is taken and I stand in the doorway staring. I always sit in the same seat. I know she sees me looking at her but I don’t make...

“I suppose you also have a walking stick,” I say. “All eight-year-old girls have walking sticks. If you don’t have a walking stick, what...

As for me, I am living tucked away beside a forgotten vineyard. Like me, the grown shaggy and fruitless, misshapen, thirsty for...

I am not his sub. I am his wife. I am his college sweetheart. I am the mother of his children. I am his secretary at the office when she...

Did you know the word familiar has liar in it? Right there at the end. I’m not saying this for some well planned Extravagant metaphor,...

Digging holes in the town hall Phantom birds flying through the atmosphere Soft strands among the trees Awake among the flames hot breath...

My little garden is in shadow. Beyond the beige brick wall surrounding it, the sun shines. The tree outside the wall stretches its long,...

i wonder how it would feel to feel good in this body to wake up and not wish this stomach away the only mountain there a home for a child...