Unspeakable

On average, more than 50,000 refugees relocate to the United States annually.                 Continue reading →

Distant

for my father   I am already in my forties when you mention in passing, as though I must already Continue reading →

The Neighbor’s Boy

I stir the cookie batter, add extra chocolate chips. On the radio, the news: level voices, other lives: a razor-wire Continue reading →

Hurricane Rita

A roaring, screaming, relentless wind thunders trees to the ground while Jigsaw howls, and claws a hole through the linoleum. Continue reading →

“Our Lives Are All Different, and yet the Same”

Sixty years after the Ten Booms were dragged off to Ravensbruck, the tour guide asked my daughter to hold the Continue reading →

Dirt

Heavy machines growl for days, gulching our yard’s edges. Screeching metal arms, teeth-like hands, scoop dirt into piles taller than Continue reading →

Eagles in the Red Sky

I was standing in the water cleaning my cooking pan with a clump of wet heather.   My mate said, Continue reading →

Outside the Bar

6 P.M. and the world is burning, the whole moon flared up like an ember, and you, walking back and Continue reading →