Our disappearance would register/ as the movement of a sand grain/ on a windy beach full of sand.

The currents of events/ strip the molecules from cartilage,// reverse polarity of ventricles—

The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine and it sits there and waits until I come home just like you.

Saying this work is reminiscent of Diebenkorn or Thiebaud is a false statement on my partfor whom am I to say if the colors capture the sea in Ocean Park and the thick brush strokes against the milky thighs are the Streets of San Francisco…

The girl lifts my head, and I sit up straight once again. She hands me a pair of old work gloves, helps put them on my swollen hands. She wipes my face with a wet, warm towel. Her thin arms tremble. She cries. I cry.

Paulie opens the curtains in his bedsit to sunshine. And blue skies! He basks in it for a full minute, feeling the heat on his naked body.

He disrobes; shoes, socks, shirt, belt, pants. He smells of hard work. The nude whisper of everything else.

gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour and just getting under way

A large shadow cast overhead as the sound of sirens blared in the distance. People looked up at the white clouds consumed by the pitch black cloud.

After oh so many hours the eyes could only close only to view a Ritz cracker marching on a nose

Cliffs are not all I've known, but I've seen them every day since I came to light. When I first broke out of the shell that protected me from feet and poisons, I pushed my way into darkness. It was soil. I could not have survived if it was light, and when I surfaced there…

She calls me by my name. She says I am her daughter.

See the hair Know the hair Remove the hair

She found Matthew toward the back, cradling an urn with a tasteful black and gold pattern. When he saw her approaching, he held it up for inspection. “You think I’d look good in this?” he asked.

“She’s very sick. She’s dying,” and he smoothed my hair along my neck. “It’s leukemia. A very rare type,” his hand reached my shoulder and stopped there. “She only has a few months.”