My best presents this year haven’t been wrapped up and waiting for me beneath the tree, but have been fruits hanging on the branches of my life that have finally ripened and are starting to drop into my lap. After 3 1/2 years of saying I was going to start driving, yesterday I drove all [...]
Last night I dreamed, among other things, that I saw myself walking through a green field, wearing a purple sweater with a long yellow top underneath, and holding a yellow telephone on my shoulder. The phone was just balancing there where the neck of my sweater turned over and bunched up. I didn’t look like [...]
dark nights seeping spilled ink pooling on paper indelible marks smudged beneath my eyes which crinkle at the corners rheumy pains in my shoulder and i protest: i’m still young! death is not yet allowed this stealthy encroachment pains reach down with branching fingers tubers in the loamy earth i am conscious, certainly uncertain this [...]
