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Never Quite Out of Touch
Every fall, my dad gets the family together for one weekend camping trip - as he puts it, "a last chance to get away from everyone before we're trapped in with them for the winter." In years past, these trips to the great outdoors have meant primarily one thing: person-to-person communication ( Read more... ) -
Allude to Teeth
Munching on an apple, I ponder the beauty of teeth: the slicing, the gnashing like knife blades, the chomping of a deli grinder - the wonder of design that allows us to eat such variety. And still we spit in the eye of dentistry. And, oh, the dentist, how she must hate to be the harbinger of change for the teeth that she loves - and they do love ( Read more... ) -
The Blurb at 10
The crisp acrid smell of hairspray still hangs in the air between as I nearly walked into myself from two minutes before, toweling the wet locks behind my ears. I would like to say there was a confusion about the matter, but hardwired programming from deep in the cellar comes storming up, muscles lock, bones set, adrenaline firing off like ( Read more... ) -
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The story is broken up into 12 parts called 'Lines' to match the lines of the poem ( Read more... ) -
Shamanic
The rocks that ping against the tin sides of his home, like songbirds flying at windows, barely rustle the dogs. A twitch of a lip and a groan but neither move from beneath the cradle where their heads almost overlap in joined guardianship. He stands at the window, watching the two shapes below the mango tree, lobbing quarter-sized stones, light ( Read more... ) -
Never stop the ball...
How does silence sound ( Read more... ) -
More jiggles...
A single shoe bounced along
the highway stands
no chance of recovery.
No one bothers a rescue attempt
-not for a single shoe-
by nature incomplete,
a pariah even among the trash
of umbrellas and shredded tires. -
I'm enjoying this...
Its odd how easy it is ( Read more... ) -
More as it comes
When I hear an ex-girlfriend ( Read more... ) -
Catching up for a Summer of Neglect
Automaton ( Read more... )