A dozen empty glasses stand on the countertop filmed over with last night’s supper. I should have washed them straightaway, but I was heavy in the legs and grimy with day labor. The children were noisy last night. They clashed like wood spoons on sheet metal. I sat futile as a dry cow with my […]

There are two razors charging on the counter, wires crossed one over another. It seems strange to me that a man grown from a seed inside my body leans over this sink now. He bends down into the mirror and lifts his chin to catch the spares. Here my daughter stands and turns in the […]

Soon the rattle and flurry of the day will settle into a cool black hush. May this room be a respite waiting. May the weary who land here find softness opening up to them, thrown wide like two plump, white arms. May these clean sheets stretched sweet as a summer field tucked neat and tight […]

Every time I stood beside her, I wanted to hide myself. She was the kind of beautiful that emphasized my every flaw. That’s what made me awkward around her. When I sat on her couch, I wanted to fold in my big ugly feet and my hands with their nails ripped off at the beds. […]

Do not be ashamed of your limitations. Don’t be grieved because you have weaknesses and gaps. Do not worry that you are very, very bad at some very good things. Here is why. Color theory. Let us take yellow, for instance. Yellow functions best in a piece of artwork when yellow is yellow with all […]