drowns his worries in a bathtub, compartmentalizing and filling each thought into a bottle to pour out shot by shot another day one at a time or too many at once till he is drunk on the confusion swimming in what overwhelmed feels like there…

Digging weeds in my New Orleans garden deeply rooted interloper cones up with a tank dangling from roots a section of gold chain bracelet, necklace? three years after Hurricane Katrina newly purchased home I was a transplant having come to help with regional revovery It…

Under the damp earth a single coin lay Buried for centuries and lost to time Gazes to sunlight without sheen Browns and dull greens tarnish the once beautiful silver Etchings, eaten away by ground water, are misshapen and indecipherable Only a half-visible face with a…