Earlier in the evening, they had dinner with friends. She made a salad and he picked up a red blend from McEachern’s. She hadn’t liked…

I have watched her die every day for 6 months.  I love her more because we are losing her yet hate her for leaving us. …

I pulled my car into the driveway of a bird blue bungalow. The screen door opened slowly, and a tiny, hunched woman walked out. Simply…

Harry was sitting on a park bench soaking-up some of that free Vitamin D doctors were telling folks to absorb this time of year. The…

Eyes met, glance away, and then meet again.  An awkward dance, like junior-high students mingling, yet it still caused Luke’s heart to jump.  The eyes…

“What a sunset,” I coughed. I do not know why I remember this, but I recollect my deplorable health. Nulling stress, little sleep, sparse food,…

Our wedding took place on a July evening in Kolkata, a couple of months before Chhoton and I were to depart for Canada. On that…

Pleasant Valley Township, where I spent my childhood, produced tremendous crops of milkweeds, which loved the sandy loam soil. From springtime on, pastures and ditches…

Oh you young whippersnappers, vampires flinging down your words like petticoats, not stones, don’t call your mother a whore and stop blaming my generation for…

Embrace the body. Embrace the overdeveloped, underappreciated goddess that you are. There is no manual for what you have. You have this vessel that men…

Like nearly all the island lads he couldn’t swim a stroke, yet brought his skin back whole from three straight sinkings on the Murmansk Run.…

My boyfriend left me and thought it was a good idea to send me a picture of himself every day. This was over a year…

I do not want ties. The branches of the linden angle down here, do not move but for the wind. The sinking sun is mindless—it…

Outside, at this café, the muddled noise from so much chatter. The color of the sky is a blue circle. At the same time, a…

By the river, a great smudge of dusky bird abruptly separates from the oak— a bald eagle, beating at the breeze.  I break into a…