life

tendered

doors open because that's what they're built for but hearts only get exposed in an accident. In each case, we have to decide whether to...

friendship

dearest Claire, I write to you. these days are a raft of bombs, a choir of seagulls, a murder of darkest winged beasts but all I really...

oh, but slow down

they all love to tell us to slow down so we (delicately) pack our lives into soft old bags like our insides live in our outsides old bags...

soft centers

it's when I cry that oh, I feel my center unfold but that makes me more vulnerable, yes? the unfolding is the shell breaking and the...

what I gave my child on their birthday

here’s your present, I told you and I held your hand as we walked out into the desert and stood there feeling our skin blaze, fires at...

Adam (without Eve)

he wears thick dark frames, his pale overwashed shirt hanging limply over his thin body as he hunches over his soup watching as it grows...

last will and testament

before you scatter me on the surface of the sea, just know that I wept for you for years, like my mother did for her own father (she...

places I've cried

It was when I was standing in the sale rack at JC Penny, holding a pair of trousers for my daughter’s school uniform that I started to...