The poet uses the metaphor of an ear of corn to describe her parents’ divorce.
Poetry
Eccentricity
A poem contrasting a person’s true identity with the expectations of others.
Poetry
Uncertainty
The poet shares five personal experiences linked by a sense of uncertainty.
Short Story
Best Left Silent
A girl whose father makes the dark unsafe tries to find normality in the light.
Short Story
Shards of Memory
A man ruined by the Depression makes one final grasp at the life he once led.
Poetry
Symbiotic Summersaults
An abstract image of intimacy.
Poetry
A Thousand Martini Hours
Contrasting the pain and the dignity of aging. “Working and sweating in the afternoon sun, | Old man joints aching and creaking, | Dust floating up and onto his old jeans…”