Let me Show You a Lake

This is the lake and the grassy bank where Paula and I sat together, mesmerized by water and its connection to our touching heads. Here is where willows dipped their outer branches to sip and mallards cruised the rippling surface. Here occurred kisses I remember as...

Times the hard way

The air makes certainthat everyone is threatened.The space between people teeters –we chew fear,rinse with the dictator’s beer.Looking behind,we see a life we got used to,that now stares sullenlylike an abandoned dogcrapping in its water bowl.The lungs count their...