Proverbs 14:12“There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.” I am 17. I have never had sex. My drinking is limited to wine coolers on card night and some Manischewitz at a Seder dinner. Oh, and that time I had some champagne at my uncle’s wedding. …
One day two sisters went out berry picking in the woods. As the afternoon wore on, they realized they were lost. They wandered up a rocky hillside and found an entrance to a cave. Following the dark tunnel, they eventually came to the entrance to a large room filled with jewels, gold, and stones of …
Just a music box,Just a broken watch, Just a home that was filled with sunlight.Just a photograph,Just an easy laugh,Just the knowing that we’d be all right. What’s the point in remembering when all it brings is pain?What is there but remembering? They can’t have lived in vain. Just a sewing kit,Just a father’s wit,Just a …
Miniscule monsters rising from the tideThe stasis of the geese in flightRising just high enough to keep their breasts from brushing the treetops. The two pairs of bluebirds giving me hope.Their song stolen from themAs soon as it left their throats. But they had somewhere to be and were going there together. The bark ripped from the cottonwoods, …
There must have been other colorsbut I remember the trees clothedIn the dull drab browns and greys of winter.The color of death. One stone then the next. The fallen trees. The sound of water.The trash of 100 years ago. The land that once sustained other peoplesIs welcoming me in, making it hard to climb out. I …
How do you tell someone that what you gave up was too much? The pocket of sunlight on the ferns.The acorn caps in my pocket.The names of flowers traded for the smell of warm pines.The mountains keep me from flying; I can only fly over hedge rows.I sat so long a dragonfly landed on me; …