Fool Moon The moon, too, yearns to see beyond clouds, we look for silver on prussian she looks for blue and green, both cursing the intervening veils and blankets of cloud. On...

    From Autism This Failure   to understand abstract concepts. Love should teach me how to teach you. I can’t find a point of entry into your world, locked rooms of loud lights,...

      Overwhelming Catastrophic Dread Did I shut the door? Did I shut the door? I am the gatekeeper, shaman, celebrant, I avert apocalypse fifty times a day. Did I shut the door?...

      Bolivia Plays in the World Cup I become myself that summer. The summer of drinking api, baking dulce de leche cakes with my sister and playing football with my brother. It is...

      The Snow   The snow is terrible this year. The road towards the library takes longer than usual. I keep the books home, waiting, for the roads to clear up. Buses drag by,...

    Isolation Experiment I play solitaire for hours, soothed by the patterns of wooden balls. This waiting is a perfect science. I have everything I need to measure the transition of my...

    Push I noticed the old man before he noticed me. He was sitting on the swing, looking up into the dusk, and the swing was moving gently. 'Are you okay?' I asked and he looked at me,...

    Positively Negative   I simply couldn’t Visualize Positive thinking seekers To attend my Positive thinking group Which meant my Positive thinking group Like a Town crier on the...

      Sandgrains 1 At the hour of long shadows, the sun lights up the crown of the oak. As Bashō lay dying, he told how his soul still wandered the withered moor, startled by the...

      The Market in Cheongju. Night A spring night in Cheongju. A thousand mysteries in the elixir of cold oranges. Korean seamstress in the closing market, floor littered with...