Perhaps Tonight
Perhaps tonight she will come to me. I’ll stand at the sink, washing the same mug over and over, just to glance out the window and up the lane, toward the highway.
Diving: Everything’s Gonna Be All Right 3
The immaculate sky spins away, the sparkling sea descends and with a roar of silence I am suspended and weightless. This is my favorite part of diving: the moment I drop backward off the deck and tumble into the water.
Useless Foster Father
There’s a disturbance at the entrance. Has someone come to help, or is it one more thing I can’t deal with, one more thing for me to mess up?
Orphaned Again
I am a few miles from the spot where my father ended his life, on this date, in such weather, thirty one years ago, when he was my present age of fifty three.
Last I Heard From My Father
When I was in high school, my family broke up and I moved to Greece with my father. He scored us this fabulous apartment: spacious, airy, tile floors, balconies off every room. He found me this crazy antique desk. We set it up in the living room and I did all my school work there,…
Bears?! I ain’t skeard a’ bears!
I was hiking (alone) in the Ottawa National Forest the other day, when, looking up the trail, I saw a little bear sitting just next to the trail. Oh boy! I have always longed to encounter a bear in the wild. I took a super-zoom photo and examined the image —
A Wonder Of Feeling 