In the fifth floor office, your father the diamond-dealer placed three diamonds along the crease between my middle and ring: marquis, sweet- heart, oval. He…
The old hag fed me with a spoon: one lump of gray porridge after another, lifeless and bland like an old washrag. Her wrinkled face…
You taught me to move fast, duck and dodge, fist to face, shoulders squared. We spent two summers play fighting and smoking. I’d curl like…
I was searching for a leprechaun and found one. It was a she who didn’t play by the usual rules, freely revealing the location of…
I had offered the house to a community theatre group for a rehearsal. I watched them rehearse one long scene and then, though it had…
Sherman’s first name was Tecumseh, really, after the Shawnee chief, but a priest tacked on William, after the Saint of Vercelli, on account of him…
The first use of fire is generally associated with Homo erectus, who are thought to have begun using fires approximately 1.5 million years ago. I…
We’re in bed again and you’re peeling a kiwi with your fingers. Get a knife, I say. It’s only a suggestion. I’m always telling you…
Someone places a floor at my feet, but because I don’t know what floor is, I call it door and fall through it. In the…