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Distractions
Reading at work, listening to music during labor, swatting gnats while meditating
July 2026
Puzzle Pieces
He places the misshapen square / in the hole of my face—how easy to complete, to mend us, to turn / what was missing into what is found.
July 2026A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
July 2026
The Open Marketplace of the End Times
Today I remembered the last time I looked out the window. This was months ago. Was I braver then—or more childlike? No, not childlike, as children do not look out their windows either. More naive. More stupidly hopeful.
July 2026
Formed Otherwise
There’s a presumption that to raise a child with disabilities makes you brave. I wasn’t brave. I wasn’t always a stellar mother, either. But I studied my daughter as if she were an ancient text to see what was beneath the chatter and the rage.
June 2026
The Good End of Pleasant Street
When our landlords came by to introduce themselves, they stood beside a shelf of our books on how to avoid suffering: “Develop a mind that clings to nothing,” said the Buddhist Diamond Sutra; Be Here Now, read the spine of a Ram Dass book. Dan was a general contractor and wore a flat cap and a half grin. Or a sneer. I wasn’t sure which.
June 2026
Our Fraying Hearts
I have a sense of the drama people want to hear about, but most days our ER is filled with abdominal pain and vomiting—nothing like what you’re accustomed to seeing on TV.
June 2026
Milk
Pumped for an infant, spilled at the dinner table, used as a tear gas antidote
June 2026
Separation
There is a dead snake on the cracked road. My son says it’s not a dead snake. He says the snake has just shed its skin and left it there.
May 2026Struck
I often wonder if there was something I missed, if the thunder and lightning said something I couldn’t understand.
May 2026
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