abandon form

Anything goes.

Finding My Fix

I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.

Reconnaissance

another self emerges between assignments, to follow the dog into winter dusk and watch the snow fall. Not sociable, but perceiving

Post Pregnancy Examination (Shortened Form)

Infant’s Name: A
Delivery Date: August 1, 2002

The Final Fruits

My mother has been dead for two hundred and forty-three days. I’ve had plenty of things in my refrigerator for longer.

Your Family (Search) History

No matter how you try to ignore it, you look like him. You look like your father.

Greetings From Baja California!

Sitting at the bar on Pacific Avenue. With the seashells in the walls. Same bartender from last year, still here, making the same lethal Mai Tais.

Dis Place Ment

People have always coped with flooding, and they learned to cope with death.

Observer of the Patient

Her brown eyes,
how a fig
considers itself.

Alan Rickman and the Mermaids of the Conch Republic

Sound engineers believe Alan Rickman possessed the perfect male voice. Early acting teachers told him he sounded like he was speaking from the back of a drainpipe.

oh Manifesto

The collective
failure
of ethical standards