At a Crossroads
There's no place more crowded than this intersection of sidewalk and street. A figure flashes green, commanding the charge of two sides...
Word: Tadpoles
There was a time when your word meant everything to me— Everything. I was clinging on to the edge of a cliff; your ands and buts...
Home Team
It's baseball season a time when folks from all over the Bay Make a pilgrimage to the city stadium packing trains crowding roads...
Juice Box
Everyday he'd bring two boxes of juice. Before anything else he'd finish one and silently slide me the other. Always fruit punch, the...
Fleecing Moments
Who is glued to what? I asked. The tip of the question sprung up in my head like the lighter end of a freight ship sinking in the middle...
To be framed and...
Portraits hung across bright walls each framing an elusive figure of the past. Some wear strokes smiling, as if their anguish has been...
Moving Day
The air is dust and the dust are things forgotten, slipped behind a couch here a bed there Screws, wrappers, coins, and string bits 'n...
Everything the Dark Touches
I heard that on Mars, the stars don't look like stars but floating gems scattered aimlessly on an endless crown, for a ruler lost in a...
Into My Pocket You Go
You stand in front of a shop of butter and spices, your head tilted as the wind brushes through your hair. Tattered boxes filled with...
The City of Effulgence
It was supposed to be raining but we got lucky the sun showered down our necks instead as we watched, patiently for fish to be tossed and...
