Birds work all through the night
I don’t know what they do this time of night. I just hear them squawking. And they sound a little …
Category Archives: Parenting
On counting cairns
Tomorrow my son moves back in bringing inexhaustible items in large clear sacks that swallow the floor like jellyfish claiming …
Effigy Mound
In my belly, now flat, curled a spine with indistinct tissue wrapped around its tiny bones like those of a …
My father finds comfort in crows
Inexplicable. That is what I say when you tell me and all I can do is shrug and count: How …
Even so
Even as you sit smoking weed in the room I just cleaned and leave your papers and dirty dishes on …
Waiting for the doctor
hazy dry, as if in midair distant beeps, rattles, blood pressure cuff wheezing up, releasing, hour after hour, day may …
How to live in a dorm
Label everything. Your scent will not do. Your good grades will not do. Use only indelible ink. Label it with …
