If present trends continue Scientists believe, predict, that if and should, we’ll all be - that’s a proven fact. Scientists assert (and to a man, or possibly a woman) even if, or when,...

    Sister Moon   All day she watches. When I hang out laundry, ceanothus branches frame her cloud-cupped face. I peg socks, shirts, pull down cotton sleeves. She’s out of place in...

    Solstice   The longest night. The moon sways close on its string.   We decorate the bed with figments of light -   tinselly bodies drop sparks on the carpets, the...

    Ming   Ming is a very friendly white male about eight years old. He needs to be an indoor cat as he is bewildered by the outside world. Sadly his owner has died. Starlight and...

    The Orphanage   And years later there came a night when, balancing on a red sofa in a red room, he either fell in a clonazepam splatter to the (red) carpet or climbed the arms, back,...

    Testament Drifting alone in deep space, it came across a little dead machine. It was inactive. A quick scan showed that it had been designed to study the planets that now lay years and...

    Kasaba Bay Bats pour like furry water from a crack beneath our rondavel’s tin roof as sunset eases sweltering heat. Slip-streamed by stink of mosquito- blood guano they fall and fly in...

    Lucidity In that one blunt shining moment of impact, when the perfect uncoiled fish-hook claws of that great buzzard or hawk marry the stretched- to-breaking-point sinewy hide of the hare,...

  End of the Shift There’s no other sound (well, maybe one other) which is so familiar, sweeps sweat back onto the brow, pours the first cold one, turns up the volume, gets the keys ready for...