Fathers
Octopi especially love to whisper: “What a bastard you are.” Mine looks more like a squid, but with a darker shade of purple. Although he’s…
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…
I couldn’t see over the dashboard when we hit it, but my father described it as a red flash sucked beneath the beam of his…
That night the father slept through 13 dreams. In the first dream he was a priest. In a second dream he was in Judas Priest….
Gritty yellow musk drips down the inverted leg and over my hand as I try to keep my first whitetail buck from spinning. I twitch…
I keep seeing airplanes. They screech overhead, scratching across clear blue skies. All kinds of lights twinkle on their wings. I’ll be walking down the…
Two days ago, I thought about how great it would be to have a monkey. I googled, “How do you buy a monkey?” They are…
I never learned to play guitar because my dad’s body aches. Most of his life has been spent working in hot warehouses. He worked for…
My Dad’s Scar, 2006 This is an image of my father’s scar from a kidney removal surgery in the winter of 1999. He has since…