Luis strained his ears, watching bare jacaranda branches twitch in silhouette against the bedroom wall. The bedroom window was sliding up. It was not a dream. A human shadow was nearly indivisible from the web…
My son who is blue-eyed and sensitive
thinks he’s alone in his room
where his music bumps and heaves.
I stand unseen at the door which is open
About a year and a half after Mitch fell, he decided on a comeback climb. Understandably, his wife was less than enthusiastic about it. Everyone agreed the fall should have killed Mitch or, worse, made…
At thirty-eight I’m still single. Actually, let me be perfectly frank: Possibly Steve Young and I are the only people in the Western Hemisphere who have remained celibate until such an advanced age, and he…
A rare treat in Manila—real grass,
short and green, probing tentatively
out of rich soil. The sky
waits to rain—black clouds
For my father-in-law, who knew the conflict Alvin Hawking awoke two hours after dusk. He slipped out of his cot and dressed in the dim yellow light that washed through the screen door at the…
He is born breach, meaning gap.
From the beginning
he was negative space
a blue cast shadow,
A washed cup,
folded socks,
three unworn shirts
with no scent of him.
Smooth bedsheets,
dry towels.
October snow brings the hunters
down from the mountains
without their kill. Sometimes
it happens this way. Sumac and oak
I have persecuted Mormons for years for ten years. I began riding with the mob in the early 90’s while working for the Utah County Journal. Asked one day to write a quick editorial for…