in the spring we went inside
prepared our homes for hard weather
learned to make candles and soap
put up rice and…

I wish I hadn’t told them. But I did. I lied from the start and all the way up to the point where there was nothing left but lies and ruin for…

i was twenty when i had this strongest dream that became a real memory the details crisp like the early morning air
the broken corn stalks…

On April 13, 2019, I spoke at the annual dinner for a local chapter of the ACLU. The topic was the deep inter-connectivity…

I wore them around my neck like a sandwich board
“Vacancy” spelled in an invented alphabet, or
“Last stop for 200 miles and
an empty…