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There is a better world out there Said my father near the shore We’ll be safe there my son You’ll be scared no more There are schools and playgrounds And happy people too A new beginning awaits us All there on the new shore We will hide no more No loud sounds to hear Plenty to eat And nothing to fear The sea will roar But hold on tight Till […]

ON THE WAY TO THE OFFICE every morning crossing campus I walk between the two tall buildings where two deaths happened just months ago one a suicide, one possibly an accident and I can’t look at the tops of the buildings from which two men descended through the air nor do I want to walk too close to those walls buildings absorb what happens there at night as the walls […]

The country I live in is called In-Between Everything now so different — though my cats are still here, my overgrown yard, my husband, the trees, the rocks, the star wanderers in their constant canopy, a kinship with limitless light Three years ago I was happy and well When a bump, a lump grew out of control surgery, radiation, chemo no point of orientation staring at oblivion, white as the […]

Funeral directive from a serial monogamist who never stopped looking for the one who would last Come sit in the front row, darlings. I hope you all can fit. Bring your boxed-up photos, useless house keys, sad CDs. Lay your offerings at my feet. Place your grievances on pure white paper, fold them into mourning doves or cut them into snowflakes and let a blizzard fly. I’ll keep still this […]