I do my best, reverent with remedies, warm hands, picture of a bear with cub. I make up stories as if the perfect character will cure your suffering. Driving at night, headlights on the painted lines, I try to remember signs from any deities, owl lifting from a shadow, lamp in a stranger’s window. An […]

I see Sweetness on the sidewalk with her friend, both of them barefoot and in little skirts, blue and yellow, the t-shirts with writing on them and printed plastic raincoats because it is raining.  Their bare feet feel good in the rain, cool on the pavement, and their faces are serious, lips set in lines, […]