A conscience

Conversation w Clara in the bath, while reading Ramona Do you know what ‘Conscience’ means? No Do you want me…

Geologic time

CW: this poem is sexy. *** Facedown on This rock Ask to feel Geologic time Strip on a pink Granite…

June 24

Zelda and I rode to Laurelhurst park on May 31st to protest. It was the second night since this most…

March 31st

Last night, something real happened between my daughter and me. As a friend said, “everyone’s regular patterns are just getting…

March 30th

Yesterday I scrubbed away the thick black line of goo (sneaky, deep-crack goo) that was making the dishwasher (and the…

Birthday letter, 7

December 24, 2019 Deanie, we are 7 years this day from the day you came out of me, there on…

A month in

Dear A– I’m thinking about you in academia. Thinking about your body. I imagine R is a good companion, helping…

Eulogy

Wevan is dead. When we got it (they? her?), Clara’s language was such that she called it We-vaan. The name…