September 2009
25 posts
August 2009
30 posts
Franklin, PA
She stood and smiled at her husband, silently reached out and barely touched his hand with her own, made eye contact when her daughter dropped her jaw as the sun set over the ocean and made an ever-so-slight splash that very few people ever hear in their entire lives, or so she told her daughter before it happened, when she and the rest of her family stood on the sand in the final act of their...
Getting Old
Today for the first time ion my life I felt old. I was driving along the 101, my child in the rear bench seat of my old Jeep, and he asked me what high school had been like for me. He just turned thirteen, and will be entering that experience for himself in just a few months. I didn’t quite know how to respond. The person I had been, the one that I though I had known so well, was long...
Last Weekend
Two Buck Chuck
on a porch in South Pas.
Rain drums above us—
nature’s percussion.
Izzy, the dog, weaves
in and out of legs.
Kids disappear
for quick hits of weed.
Lily-Boo sings
Billie Holiday.
You and I share
Shiraz as if it
were words, each
sip a sentence.
You should have kissed me.
GRACE