To Make My Heart
With apologies to those reading on mobile phones, this piece needs to be shown as a whole, including its illustration by Jerry Silverberg. Bookmark for […]
Morning in the City
I awake, heart quickening its beat, fingers slowly unraveling, gently looking for love in your still sleeping body, while, elsewhere in my brain, old grievances […]
Gossip
Five minutes into the drive home from her twin cousins’ seventh birthday party, Annie closed her eyes and tried to go to sleep. She was […]
Mother Canada
Mother Canada divorced Father America. New Westminister, BC, and Brooklyn, NY fell in love in San Francisco, CA before the famous Summer of Love. My […]
My Grandfather’s Chalet
Mosquitos made their home in the knees of cypress trees casting shade over the chalet, on the lakeshore. Water ripples with the whisper of their […]
Flame Thrower
“Does fire attract crowds?” Expecting an answer is an unshaven guy with penetrating eyes, long blonde hair and a tiny microphone clipped to his scruffy […]
Streetside Mattress
The main stain, amber and oblong, repulsesbut stay with it a moment, riveted by curiosityto an artifact of quotidian art,testimonial of bodily fluids and flakes(its […]
