November 5, 2026
Guy Fawkes Night was a familial event. The bonfire built carefully over weeks in a different backyard each year. Everyone brought fireworks.
November 2, 2026
Copal smoke rises, joins candlelit warmth to wrap marigolds, pan de muerto…
November 1, 2026
Maple leaves are falling, yellow, orange, red, brown, leaving their seasonal home of branches, big and small, leaving the mother tree…
October 29, 2026
Every single morning, as the day begins with flocks of birds waking and warbling along the full length of the sky’s horizon, all I can carol about is…
October 28, 2026
Yes, it is October,
getting ready for one of her favorite times,
October 31st, Halloween.
Ride, my friend, ride.
October 22, 2026
October 21, 2026
It was raining leaves, and he was outside trying to catch each one with his rake, as if to catch every drop…
October 18, 2026
Okay let’s go away, so you say, oh so if, could this seem, where the heavens, and the winds led the currents astray.
October 17, 2026
You want to show her the universe, give her a ride down the Milky Way, but no matter what you tell her, there's one thing you mustn’t say…
October 9, 2026
The lake swallows me in a scramble of cramping muscles and weeds. I flail, gasp swallow thrash; bubbles jet through water, a string of crystal balls to the past I reach to catch.
October 7, 2026
Do you remember when you launched your body into the deep, cold water, the surrender as you plummeted through complete darkness, paused?
October 5, 2026
Art fades into the gloom, music can no longer be heard. The players become ghosts on a dim stage. Words separate from their meaning and books are useless objects…