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Straight From The Mouth

I didn’t think I’d hear again from my grandmother’s second husband, Uncle Benny, and then he called one Wednesday afternoon, three years after my grandmother had left him. I was stacking money on my bed at the time — ones on the pillow, fives at the foot, and tens in the middle where I could see them easiest.

Small Victory

I crashed my bike once. I bought an R75/5 — my first BMW. I was told I had to earn it. I didn’t quite understand at the time.

Enemies

Shifting into gear and ramming a garbage can into the wall, buying a house together, playing apple-war games

Going Out

A three-thousand-pound slab, a pair of sunglasses and a book, a sprouting of wings

Reunions

A repressed memory, a custody battle, a summer on the prairies

Giving Up

A state of grace, a change in attitude, sainthood

Living In Lotus

Ever since the therapist said, “Rebecca, if only you’d let go once in a while, relax, flow, you’d be a lot happier,” I’d been trying to write in the lotus position.

The Law Of Relation

(Part Two)

They are lovers. He told me last night at 3 a.m., after we had taken several long walks, talking and coming to no resolution. After weeks of fighting, absolutely at cross-purposes, as though we were speaking entirely different languages.

Divorce

Breaking Up

Twenty-seven disembodied entities, Mars on a dark night, the Night Stalker