Kiln weren't my idea of oven, more like top loader weshing machine, but were all art college 'ad. inside: an asbestos lined cylinder, seven shelves, each level 'eld by a joggle,...

      Without Goodbyes (for Karen) An eternal white corridor; my mother retreating, leaving me with a too-large bed with medical-mint bed-spread. She blurs to a Lowry figure. The...

      foolish man "ich bin zufrieden," i murmured you looked at me as if i had lost my mind and asked me, "you are what?" "happy. it means i am happy." mostly i ignore braggarts, but...

    A Brief Analysis of Soup and Soup Making I invite you to consider this pot of broth. Neither meal nor beverage, it side-steps categorization with a gentle, but jaunty slop. Mistress of...

      Knife I’d like a knife, small enough to pocket. If you could find a pretty one I’d appreciate it. Shallowness I prize most of all. Sorry if this is dark. I’m not good at being...

      A Million to One “Why do movies always have bad people in them?” Morey Bernstein wasn’t old enough yet to be sitting in the front seat, so his question came floating up from the...

      First Long Walk after Convalescence (Fair Isle) The blue cross on the Sumburgh plane is stretched in the wind. Skylarks are drilling holes in the sky. An irritation of midges...

      Hooked I stuffed my hook in a ragworm's jaws, caught a glum goby with a ground line, hooked peacock rockfish, cats-meat pollack, spinning with the twins off The White Rock. With...

      The Spring Transaction Well – after David, Chad and Winnol (saints, all of them), what can you expect? One day I will be seen in sudden unexpected haze of red; the tall tree...

      Love Hope And Mercy Those words have somehow disappeared from my dictionary. I don’t know exactly when it happened, I remember noticing them fading a bit when searching for such...