January 18, 2012   Next to me a yuppie fools with her IPad/3G: I hide my scuffed, scarred Verizon LG. Down the bar a lad drinks his 9am...

October 18, 2012   Me and another, maybe two were making our way in the deep woods. We came to an ancient tree with great roots showing....

5/14/18   Actually a famous man once said: “Lord, I don’ mind if you take me. Just don’t take me in pieces.” I’m not sure how the Lord...

6/2/86  rev. 3/27/14   I’m not sure why a tree moved gently by a breeze soothes the soul, but it does. It speaks to the deeper places and...

10/28/05   Sarah is lying here drugged with a tracheotomy in her throat; machines pump her full of O2, food, antibiotics; she’s clean,...

9/16/88   revised  7/26/14     Ali holds Kartan’s face close, they kiss with open mouths, their tongues touching. He caresses her breasts...

9/15/99 Listening to machines as I begin the day- the air-conditioner, computer, the cars and trucks outside. The garbage truck just blew...

6am    30th and 3rd                                                        MIDTOWN August 25, 2014     DUMBO MOVING AND STORAGE We...

October 23, 2013 Mockingbirds sing high and low and warble in between, a blue-jay squawking, swoops in and out. House finches...

July 19, 2013   Barry was with Carmen when her breath shortened, when she breathed her last breath, when her bladder and bowels released....

Mike Easterling      Sometimes in the 1970s     At the office he’s ideal, in the carpool he’s a saint, at the club his character has nary...

1983   She crouches low and explodes forward like her Savannah foremothers, lengthening her stride, homing on her target reaching out...