When she greets me in the kitchen, Beth’s smile is welcoming, like morning light. Today is her husband’s birthday and there are things to do and groceries buy and a double layer [...]
The easiest part of the day is waking up. My body is warm underneath four blankets and the surprise of Beth’s sweet, black cat that curled on top of me sometime in the pre-dawn. A rooster crows [...]
It is half a mile hike down to the car, then forty mintutes to my parents’s house, then two and a half hours to the airport, then one hour to Cincinnati with a two and a half hour layover, [...]
Massive computer problems the night before I leave. Not good. It might be a few days, folks. Next post, from the west coast – with a picture included, if I can get everything up and running [...]
I resolve to stop the wanting, the pining, the reel of film in my mind’s eye. In other words, I decide to move on. I wake up. Hot tea. Stretch. Then straight to the desk where I write 2,500 words [...]
Some readers have expressed interest in the villanelle form. It’s something I learned about at the last residency and I liked it because it has a relatively simple formula and seems to hold up [...]
I receive eight of them in the mail, stamped, signed and sealed by the University of Oregon – the invitations to my very first public reading. They’re cut lengthwise ten inches on slate blue [...]
