“Good things come to those who wait” She sent me a children’s book drawing of white Jesus Holding a giant teddy bear behind his back on the right side of the frame As, on the left, a little girl clung to her bedraggled and lifeworn…

The years I spent in the desert of my mind, in the concrete bleakness of the northwest end of my city you spent in the pink and yellow and dust a training base just north of Joshua tree Where we went to celebrate me turning…

This too shall pass. Fly away, When this life is over. We will all get to heaven. What a better day we will have. Just. To see, The Lord.              

If they told you it would be easy, they never walked that road, never sang in that octave you’ve been practicing. If they said you need to try harder, note that sheen of fear on the forehead that says you’re better than they imagined. No…

You are so bothered by the lines on your body you read them like libel or graffiti on a temple When I see the stretch I see growth A past memories good and bad Most of all I see change Something inside growing beyond its…

Covid era Sunday on a clear afternoon. No reason to watch white walls And old binged Netflix On a day without a cloud. There was no sour dough starter. Piles of canned food Diapers. This wasn’t stockpile. It was a house of 9. A put…

Some people called us Forest Rangers, though really, we were the lowest GS in the USFS. Not the highest tower either, certainly not as tall as a skyscraper, but at three stories, 45’ Corral Hill’s cabin was high enough that our heads were in the…

Double Stuf Oreos are only 1.86 times as stuffed as classic Oreos.   24% of deaths from the ages of 15-24 are from suicides.   Opossums are so excited when they are scared they pass out.   Mental disorders in youth are ranked as the…

the neighbors’ dogs bark half-heartedly– small power outages temperature in the 90s one crow caws a sip of green tea imagining for a moment a cool breeze

(after Octavia Butler’s “Earthseed”) there’s this place where I am special I can feel others feels famine, war, tyranny, this all complicates things so I travel on foot picking up other travelers I hope are safe victims children healers and others afflicted with being special…