Scars He was out of his skull when he said Let’s be lovers, licked my cheek like sea-lapping the shore. He walked me home from school down that secret path past the cliffs where...

      Blanket I was the designated person. I’d seen it before and I am hard. All over in a few seconds; a slow movement across two graduations, then an increased flow to a final stop...

        Hedge Maze Hedge maze a quarter mile square. Everyone who enters it terminates in screams. Even cops, determined to rescue someone, lose themselves for lack of clues and fail...

    Tea-time in Sand Bay The bare beach rolls away windswept, smooth, as much space as can fill two eyes, and the desire to feel the wind. Mercury-bright channels gouge snaking paths to...

      Some Neighbors Refuse to Become Words Old Smoky came home last night. We hadn’t seen her in days. Standing in our front window, we could watch their big screen TV across the...

      Words These words, little more than trinkets, piffle, Trade in counterfeits with the soul (Should there be one). They stack loose change in separate piles Hoping they might add...

      As we climbed the slope we've followed the route of the old stone wall dappled light's playing tricks of blue on bells then shaping and sharing our way as it shades upwards over...