The train seems heavier on the tracks tonight although the news is now old news— the unexpected derision at the local hangout, the two girls who were drinking…
We sit beneath a giant maple watching pirouettes of yellow gust upwards, each leaf an illumined skin stretched across a pliable spine. My son spins an apple between his…
Completely blind since birth, Laura would stare for minutes into a close-held flashlight beam, press the heels of her thumbs into her eyes so she could ‘see’ the eruption…
At the bus stop under the horse chestnut, we tally the length of Boyhood against the babysitter's plans for later and, waiting, see the leaves have started to wilt,…
where Route 100 meets School Street, two cows graze. I've heard Vermonters lend their cows to neighbors—and to the city, it seems—free food for cows, free mowing for the…
I always knew that Grandma’s grandfather crashed on the cliffs of Newfoundland, and that we are here because he climbed the waves atop a freezing rock and stayed there…
Hampi Resort, India brushstrokes of wind blue-gray cacti and the thick teak trees honeymooners in their hammocks drinking tea that’s mostly milk black cows white cows…
Lower the shovel and flatten the ground. --Gerald Stern Mostly, denial, the nerves in abeyance— add one day and a stoop sets in. I churn my shoulders to undo…