Conveniently Inconveniently

Being dead is a huge inconvenience for everyone but the dead. Family, both miles-away-people and close-ups under the roof, experience a variety of griefs and unsettled grievances. Verbs decay from active to passive, tenses shift from present to past, pronouns from you...

Readjustment

That’s what the steering wheel is for, amending the car/road relationship. The road is constant. The car is not. Weaving, veering, drifting, etc. For example, the car too close to the yellow line, or attempting a left-hand  turn in traffic, or on a trip to the grocery...

The Whispers

we are receivers                  receivers          all receivers satellites (envying stars)  zing through                atmospheric                       windows      distant  scenes battering                                              eyes ideational sounds...

The Vantage Point of Age

I live downstream from what I have made of my life. In the repose of age, I sit by the stream of memory and watch all that I have saved of my original self and all that I have lost of my original self float by.