Garden  It is such a beautiful eveningblue tipped with gold. Along the low brick wallwhere we sat (beforethe chairs were gathered in),the tall tree waves greenlyto the sky. Nothing is...

A Change of PlansI am driving left-handed, right arm draped across the back of the empty passenger seat. The lake mirrors a grove of aspens from the shore, and the afternoon sun is at my back. A...

RhododendronWe stumbled over the spelling,of those robotic syllables. We arguedmerrily, making fun of where the ‘R’ and the ‘h’ go, being silly, a goodsign, the beginning of somethingother than...

And breatheVenter Institute scientists have createdthe first synthetic bacterial genome.As the scientist’s apprenticedraws his hand back from the dishthe harsh strip-lighting announcesevery shadow...

OutWashing up, you might be reaching for the next plate when you hear a noise. You pause. You hear it again, a creaking. You dry your hands. On the porch under stars an empty chair rocks. Were this...

Crack in the Asphaltthe road to the centre of the villagethe aberration of light in the lens of a transparent leafmakes all contours lose their meaningsbetween the hammer of the sunlightand the meat...

No Way People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void.  This is not the true void.  It is...

Poet's BestiaryAttempting to hammer some live thing out of the words,black and white, green, it hangs on the feeder.            ●A sentence better...

When a Beauty outlives her looks. The TV tolls her death at 79.Jogs our memory about her brace of Oscars,emphasises the ‘Dame’ but footnotes the genius of her face,and the barmaid’s dirty laugh...

Broken WindowsAll this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling.The difference is spreading. —Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons)Stein and Picasso would sit by the window and watch the street...