“Wake up,” he says, he whispers, and he gently nudges her, moving some hair from her face. As usual, she appears untouched, unaffected by the ravages of deep slumber, though she would surely tell you a different story. Her head moves a little and she groans. Not yet. She buries her face in the pillow. […]
Candlewood Forever
Candlewood, my childhood, always summer, floating and first loves and swim team ribbons, and the stone wall retainer, and that stairway down to the soft sand, and Sunnies nipping my toes, and splashing, and shrieking, and underwater handstands, and backward somersaults, and uncles throwing children high into the air, coming to surface with our long […]
Blue Whale of Bolinas {Poetry}
You were hit by a ship, they said. Blunt force trauma. 10 broken ribs. Fatally unfair – Did you struggle to stay alive? For a short while, swimming in circles, knowing, the way animals know, that you didn’t have a prayer? You washed up on that rough rock beach, and we trickled in to see […]
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