Poetry
Fairy on the Stairs
At three o’clock she unlocked the door in ratty boxer shorts and shift,redhead of swirling islands. He’d been gaga over her matchboxes, her beeswax miniatures.
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Poetry
Preservation
My mother lived on Balsam Roadwith four siblings and a moundof paper dolls, safe upon a chessboardof kitchen tiles. The house sat like a sugar
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Poetry
Charactery
After winter’s pill, a flurry of frogs like Roscoe Holcomb from the pond downhill at dusk, a sunset thong bunched on a black branch. All
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Poetry
ABRACADABRA
A baby fox we found sleeping six years ago beneath a shedreappeared for his wake. He squinted beneath the porch when I hopped down to
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Fiction
The Race
The eternal struggle takes time.—Professor Fate, The Great Race Minnie searched for someone to flag the race—motorcycle versus horse and wagon; logic against hope as
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A Pinch of Herbs
A Pinch of Herbs—Mustard
Legend goes it was the World Series in 1986, when the Red Sox lost to the New York Mets, that drove Barry Levenson to do
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Recipes
Mr. Jones’s World Famous Pizza
Friday night is pizza night and has been for our lifetime. Back in the late 60s and 70s, it was pizza from Papa Felice’s on
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Poetry
A Fish out of Water
The subaquatic low and unrelenting moan of whales surprised me Here on the 4th floor of my office building. I turned from my computer to
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Poetry
Mandatory Birthday Hats
I wish wearing birthday hats was mandatory,
Like wearing seat belts when you drive.
I’d like a world where shiny pointy ridiculous cardboard cones
Could be spotted in traffic, at stores, at work . . .
Bringing the person beneath it into focus, letting us share their secret that today, on this very day,
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Poetry
Tactics
He may be asking for money with his hand out or his cardboard sign Or maybe he’s sitting on the curb staring or talking to
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