You are trapped in the box canyon of my heart its high jagged yellow ochre walls a western New Mexico no-man’s-land. You whirl like a...

In the collected humid light of dusk, an orange sun slowly sinks below the hayfield, and we come to the farmhouse in the relief that is...

I sat in the back of the library with my seventeen- year-old friends. With heads down, we flipped through bridal magazines and whispered...

I slay my fears and place them on the altar, the last obstacles preventing our union. Though a pagan, I kneel, sing the hymns, pretend to...

March roared in, a lion breathing snow, ice, wind, and bitter cold as it drug winter along behind, like the hock of a dead animal. It...

We are all glaciers as we transform, split, and calf pieces of ourselves. Beliefs fall away. Discarded and outdated, the mind seeks new...

The precariousness of life strikes you only as you move through it. Like a maze with dark alleys and tight turns, it careens out of...

When the path diverges, we must always choose, not knowing if the road untaken will ever present itself again. With the benefit of time...