To begin a new relationship with an old lover, is precisely that; new. How you cannot drink from the same river. Changing ways. Therapy and the co-pay. And so…

  I tell my student surgeons are more likely to be sociopaths, full of themselves enough to make a wound, then declare it healed. A sociopath’s paper bag personality is…

  for going upside my head with the seared black on both sides sound of your voice that night I got high off you with a mythological kind of white…

  Together we translate our mornings into coffee and the crossword, each with her own cup, each her own copy, the ritual habitual, afternoons into separate rooms, you pondering interstellar…

  From the patio of the architect’s favorite bar, you watch the city spiral out—a black net of chain-link fence, three crew cut soccer fields, the gray vein of West…

  My friend pronounced, like a man without a past, that the images were real. It was only on certain days, when the light hit the kitchen counter—the flowers, the…

  Even in the memories of the longest-lived whales, the ocean has never been quieter; this virus cuts a silent wake. Deep in their earwax, the dank white of baleen,…

  When did you last hug your mother? A. Before she spoke and I yelled. The word spun from my mouth +++like a screwball. B. When the stitches of the…

  the boy reminds me that he is not, in fact, my son. Too late now. We’re way into a country road & I’m carrying him against my chest like…

  In an effort to legitimize a land ethic the lettuce farmers self-impose a subsidy on solitude. In certain circles, folks abide by the fundamental truth: nothing is good in…

  There’s so much they could have done for each other and a lot they could have generally just done. It was summer so evening came differently to the kids…

  despite my lamentation, I was wrong from the beginning about that book’s name. how did I misremember details from my life so thoroughly as to reinvent the self- important…