It Sometimes Happens when a Friend has Died
As long as you read this poem I will be writing it. I am writing it here and now, before your eyes…, —Alden Nowlan, “An Exchange of Gifts” It sometimes ha...
Month: November 2020
Geometry of Dignity and the Etiquette of Possibility
When we talk, don’t pull your chair up opposite of meso that the only thing I can see is you, sitting there like an inquisition.And don’t swing your chair aroun...
Old Man finds Photo of Boy
It’s early evening, the chores are done, and the sun is setting on the 1960s.Young people in San Francisco are conspicuously hip —not one having heard o...
Wisdom and the Women who have Gone On Ahead
The following was kindled by the writings of Stephen Jenkinson and his book, Come of Age, and by women I have known: the quiet courage of my own mother, three a...