He came up from under the water and looked at us. I asked, Whatcha doin' here? Then he said he was going for a swim because the water was warm. Mickey and I looked at each other. He is going for a swim because the water is warm, I told Mickey. Then his…

He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.

He called himself Theodore Birdwhistle.

Paul Shaffer and his cloned henchman Mini Paul come rattling through the early morning sky in a modified World War I biplane.

The world is beginning to lose what little hair it has left. Follicles litter the streets and scrape along merrily in the wind like one last turn of the world defying knob of being and knowing. But the thing I want to say here is how beautiful…

Was it only for the vast dance of the darling soul, that you were born? Not to give up your genetics? Made for the use of the future, were you? I should have known. I heard the wind that swirled within you, even then, when we were so young. You were

The photograph has no date,but these are my long-ago kin,ancestors just before the boat,six stone-faced on the English shore,sepia on cardstock under glassstill clear in severe, dark clothesexcept one who has been markedout, maybe with black wax,which runs to the bottom…

The Beatles on TV their last show together as a group and we all knew it smoking dope sitting around in large groups in living rooms across the universe they sang Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road knowing a man

When I was 10 or 11, some people thought that my father was my grandfather, that my brother was my father, and that my mother was my sister!

There was always something about the air in the deep south. The summer air. It was always so thick. So heavy. Joey didn't notice. He didn't know any better. He had lived in Savannah all six years of his life. He did remember the one time his father and…

Perseid meteors fly past their ship like cosmic fire-wasps.

Something was changing. We could sense it in the circling air. A loss of stillness - and we'd been still for so long.

My father died. I took his clothes.

"...,beautiful, yet neutral, an oversimplistic reading of the people we meet."

Many years ago I visited a nude beach. I undressed at the car and walked with my companions onto a California beach as naked as the day we were born.