Childhood Memories

The God of Forgetting

The agony of long slow summers as a child

A Temple Curtain Rent

One thing I know — none escape the Fall

Birth of a Hermit

In the half-light of afternoon
she sculpts potatoes.
You know to say nothing — 
her Cordon Bleu course
working its way through…

Memory of a birch tree

Days I would save: years later I learned of the dangers but that was the summer I climbed trees, my child’s arm…

Caterpillars

The summer of the tent caterpillars

Turning My Bedroom into a Spider Refuge

How I said no to my Arachnophobic mother

SUBSISTENTLY SI(CK)X

What are without the Fears that rent a home within?

The Rest of the Story

Of an Old Suitcase Waiting by the Side of the Road.

Goats/Humor

Billy Goats Are Avid Consumers of Information

And I can prove it

Strange Stuff I Believed As a Kid

Children will so often believe anything if it’s incredible