The local news, projected to the bar by way of their staticky, cafeteria tray–sized TV, warned of severe storm conditions, possible flash flooding. That afternoon, the odd car that…
The old man woke up screaming. The nurse, asleep in the next room and dreaming of the seaside, heard the scream as a black harpy screeching toward a flock…
Much later, when I was twenty-eight years old, I met up with our childhood friends at a bar in our Connecticut hometown the night before your funeral and they…
dilapidation on the lawn we watch without sorrow; a chair, perhaps is the irretrievable earth appraising, I think, this came from my father’s country where bricks are the…
Your house is a room that follows the sun, changes constantly like light-sensitive glasses. On the hottest days, the carpet retreats and a low vinyl tide creeps in. You…
There were, of course, the doctor appointments you accompanied me to, after repeatedly finding blood in my urine—fearing it was a symptom of something worse lying underneath. That…
1. Like one of those bubble-makers spewing drooling chains from balconies during Mardi Gras parades, I am churning out his cells as we speak. Some of the bubbles…