In a dream, you began to open your robe and paused;          in that moment your body looked exactly like mine--- it paused and proceeded with cancer.

Sorry in advance for the title; it just seemed right. A Quiet Suicide 1. The movement was subtle---the break from vine to vineyard, the watching of broken bird eggs, hairline fractures. The young ones, they had eyes like water and baking powder. 2. A field dotted with...

1. He's sleeping again, and inside he dreams that he cannot eat, cannot sleep--- and then he can't. Not like this. Not in this room labeled C3 on the second floor--- on the kidney side of the hospital. 2. And then, I'm addressing you--- You are lost again, your usual...

In Midnight Orchards                         for Dragan, these haikus and lines The sunset falls like              gold over water: softly, deliberately, before the white horse envelops the sky. Then, there is the moon---             followed by the apple trees. Your...

The sinners don't often come here to learn to write---their skin pale with too little sunlight, the lost pigmentation. They float like lost souls in boats over the water, drifting slowly toward and away from one another until the snow comes--- snowflakes falling like...

At first, there is nothing but the sound of breaking branches--- until there is an engine, a dusty hearse, a line turning the corner, car after car, the police leading the way onto the Raccoon Lake [main exit], all accompanied by a flag, all too like a man burning a...