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Stronger Than Death
If, on a visit to St. Benedict’s Monastery in Colorado, you were to drive about a half mile beyond the main turnoff, there on your right you’d come upon a washed-out driveway leading to an abandoned ranch house known as the Stanley place.
February 2003
Stepping Out Of The Body
Like someone stepping / from a pair of dirty overalls, / turned inside out on the bathroom floor, / I step from my body.
February 2003Hell
Ten minutes into a recent flight from San Jose to St. Louis, I was reveling in a first-class upgrade and a new Margaret Atwood novel when I felt and heard a powerful thump. The aircraft, which had been gaining altitude, rocked vigorously.
February 2002
Her, Rising
Yes, there are the memories / like little phylacteries strapped to our minds, / and there are the ways we know our dead / have worked inside us
February 2000The Dead Boy At Your Window
In a distant land, a woman looked upon the unmoving form of her newborn baby and refused to see what the midwife saw.
October 1999Fritz’s Heart
They want to make all pain go away, but that is impossible. Pain is like the sand in an hourglass: a certain amount must sift through your soul before your life is over.
March 1999
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