Month: September 2021

The pitfalls of the can-do way are subtle and known by worker ants and women, generally. A hardy ethic saps our strength, the energy expenditure our shape, and soon we flap like scarecrows through the lobby. I’ve bought six dresses, each one chic  and too soon gappy. Saturdays I wonder if idling will round me…

A cat guards the storefront and stares down  the ice cream truck, while the middle-aged Honduran hums to Christian country.  No one would have guessed, but is it such a surprise when you assume other stereotypes of him? It’s glum at the laundromat, despite the hum of washers, the Vegas noise of the coin dispenser,…

It’s easy to fear the stiff-walking wolf; how many of us live in the woods? We’ve moved out so that nobody suffers a bit heel or gobbled grandmother. It’s hard to fear the ones without the maw or the black gum lips, the incisors and dog breath. When they smell like cloves. The man with…

You afterward thought against the ribbons.  They seemed to say, “I’ll wait by  the stairs. Call me down.”  The perfect bow and curled ends had you sitting on the top step, playing with your poodle skirt, swearing you didn’t care. There were better uses of your time— that you know and use against yourself next time…