Browsing Category Prose, Poetry, and Art

Drive Me Home

in Nonfiction Spring 2023 on April 13, 2023 April 5, 2023

Where I live, abandoned buildings lean precariously towards roads carved by oxen the first time they sloughed this forest to the ground. The only road to my home is held in place by roots of…

Bukhoor

To cleanse a home of bad smells, those old burn pits from decades ago; bring to the earth and our hands large gusts of rich white billows; welcome guests, let it travel through their hair…

Liquid Skin

in Nonfiction Shadow Play and Light Work on March 16, 2023 March 16, 2023

Under the bad neon hardware store lighting in brunch and boutique Ranelagh I flap a six-tint color swatch at my med school classmate. As if a ticket on a commuter train, nudging to get hole-punched…

#6 (1997)

in Fiction Shadow Play and Light Work on March 9, 2023 March 9, 2023

Essie’s got hair like a dried dandelion. So blonde it’s almost gray, all scraggly thin and light looking. So short you can see right through to her scalp. Sitting in the desk behind her, I…

The Cataloger

in Fiction Shadow Play and Light Work on March 2, 2023 February 22, 2023

Piebold, Maryellen. “Work By 15th-century Female Artist Discovered Moldering in Monastery Basement.” The Adventurous Traveler. Retrieved online: 3 May, 2019. The books on the shelves of the San Francesco sopr’Arno monastery in the Tuscan village…