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 […]
Is That The Way That It Goes? {Poetry}
Here, I find myself locked and loaded, in my bed, leaning, with charged-up, sweet emotions, wondering, dreaming, about where they (these feelings) can possibly go. Will they travel a few more boring, lonely byways to find you? To get to you? Will they trip and scale your rocky, musical mountain? Can they wade through our duly […]
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