When he was in high school, he was hurt during a football game. He was sacked and his leg bent and twisted, caught up in a divot on the field. “He went down like a ton of bricks.” That’s the expression his dad always used when retelling the old story. His girlfriend, by all accounts, […]
Be Still My Jaded Heart
If you’re anything like me, the Donald Trump presidency (along with soul sapping politics in general and all the hammering, relentless media coverage that goes with it) has indeed knocked the wind right out of my sails. My shoulders droop. I have deeper wrinkles in my forehead from making the “WTF face” all day long. I’m often […]
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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