Living in the layers

The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I … More

On the Edge

On the Edge After your mother dies, you will learn to live on the edge of life, to brace … More

Struggling I haven’t had time to stand and fart recently, and you’re wanting me to work on a relationship? That … More

The Schoolchildren Like leaves startled by a gust of wind they peel away from the tight-knit group, one child, two, … More

Simply Lit Often toward evening, after another day, after another year of days, in the half dark on the … More

Practice To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face … More

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look up at the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the … More

Another Loss to Stop For Against such cold and mercurial mornings, watch the wind whirl one leaf across … More

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More