we come to water even when we know we have good tap at home and the sprinklers are preset to distribute a half-inch of water to the new peach…

  hours spent          navigating switchbacks         & not speaking +++++feel familiar          yet distant          like the…

  You said love because love is better than just living I said I can’t remember love and I’m not having fun You said sometimes love can be found on…

  shelter volunteers face six self +++++identifying women who surf +++++++++++for jobs, housing and Deb — who decrypts Brueghel, Bernie Sanders +++++and baseball conspiracies in black +++++++++++cheerleader sweats. To our…

  If I could be a hairy coo grazing in summer by the sound, hair like some sulky teen over my eyes, horns in ceaseless shrug at holiday boaters, I’d…

  Frankly don’t know who’s writing this here, but Whatever it is, it’s rather shameless Why? For one, this attention to itself “But that’s just one voice,” conductor voice says…

  Done with you for the time being bayou’s ducks in Creole French back and forth in Castilian laid-off cooks in Tagalog at water’s edge in Celtic stifling humidity in…

  Gallons in a gas tank, ten-gallon hats. Prices are up again, and I can’t tell if my cousin looks cool or dumb walking through Salt Lake airport dressed like…

  Here is a finance lesson: Silicon Valley is an hourglass economy, a sector of innovation shaped like a woman. I am a woman shaped like a valley—the center of…

  Our days are numbered, ask any of us. Our town believes in the sequence of invention. Companions teacups with saucers, windows with shutters. We ache to understand the connection…

  Not all innovative thoughts are great. E.g., a furred toilet seat unless you suffered frostbites on the butt. Constantly remind myself—in the classic there’s enduring value, on some we…

  June in a shower of loveseats all piled against my door. June masquerading as a lover           as my favorite month. The symphony begins to hum              young boys young girls…