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Love is blinded
Every month or so I get shots in both eyes. Yes, by “shots” I mean injections, with a needle and syringe. I mean into the eyeballs.
At the consultation, learning about what lie ahead, I asked the doctor, How bad is it?
He said, “I’ve been...
Bite
She sleeps this muggy summer night on a lawn chair under the tree beside our gravel driveway. In the house Jim’s moans and groans and kak-kak-kak echo through the tall hallway upstairs and seep into the floorboards. Years after he is gone t...
Grief stoppers the writing hole
At tuck-in the boy murmurs to his mom about his girlfriend.
I didn’t know love is like this, he says. I thought it was hearts coming out of your eyeballs. But it grows, he says. Thank you for getting me born.
After school while they wait...
"Who will save me from this body of death?"
Your turn, Sunday morning. At the top of the long, steep staircase you pack the shoebox with care, tucking as many bits of debris around Brer Rabbit as will fit – plastic army men, wooden blocks, bottle caps, stray Tinkertoy and Lego pieces...
Activities of daily living
The photo from your grade-school yearbook shows a toothy horizontal grin you’ve placed on your face for the camera. Not a joyless expression, quite, but mask-like. You wear an eagerness meant to satisfy the adults, as they bossed you and th...
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Jungian introvert and late-life dad. Lifelong reporter, non-materialist.
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