Category: Arts

Going Away

I remember the most beautiful party I have ever attended. It was held in a loft up-town. It was night-time, when the streets are brighter than the buildings and the eye is drawn slowly down, and I could see the Columbia University Observatory…

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Bicentennial Brother

David demarcated his territory on the waiting room chairs with assorted belongings: here a pencil, here a pair of sunglasses, here a pillow in a blue terrycloth sleeve…

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In Your Absence, the Magnolia Outside My Window

A week ago, their buds held tight:
points poked from shells…

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Ribe, Morning After Rain

Paths puddled with still water,
grass shellacked, peristaltic
stretch of slugs to inch along…

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Your Twenty-Second Birthday

Today is your birthday. You are twenty-two years old and unsure what you want to do with your life.

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Quaker Motes

“That child is getting a synagogue confirmation as sure as I’m standing here,” Joe told his wife.

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Portraits of My Father

He no longer sleeps in the bed they shared. He did for a little while, which surprised me. I would have thought her absence would have been the most palpable there, but I suppose the imprint on her pillow was the nearest thing he had to a kiss goodbye.

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A Mindy City

It has been two days since we declared war on the relationship between Joe and his girlfriend, and the battle is going well.

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Healthy

First thing I do when I come home from work every evening is get on the old University cast-off PC and see how my symptoms are doing; listen to my body. I got a little headache some days, a little cold others.

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Thumbs, or Glut Your Soul Upon My Accursed Ugliness

Genetics, via habit, go into greater detail.
Mine are uneven and gnawed, on-again-off-again

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Floating

My father drove the rented Ford the wrong way down a one-way road. It didn’t matter: we seemed to be the only people driving that day anyway.

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Hope

Today we dissect Hope.
Grasp firmly your scalpels
and press with caution against its onionskin surface.

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