The twinkie is extinct, they recently announced. We used to nail them to the wall to see how long they would last. I guess even the finest chemicals can’t preserve things forever. Take the bible thumpers who believe the Grand… Read more ›
“A beautiful carpet brings a smile to your face each morning” (Persian saying) The skeins of yarn deftly wound around the warp in Turkish or Persian knots have survived the tread of children’s feet the hurried pace of the… Read more ›
from time to time she appears to me staring through the window of our battered Renault in the same kerchief patterned with red roses she wore four decades ago hugging the same puny dog scarred by patches of mange she… Read more ›
If I were a leaf-cutter ant, I’d gnaw at your illness and with my helpers carry it piece by piece across the road. If I were a giant whale shark I’d let you cling like a remora to my… Read more ›
You always smelled likelimburger cheese and slibovitz.I remember how you held your nosebetween two fingersand blew it into the streethow you slurped your borshtstraight from the bowlhow you said with a Polish accent“Vot a vunderful tuchus she has.”A refined man you… Read more ›
If prayers could animatethe matchstick armsthat dangle by your side,I’d compose a dozen dailyand post them on the old-growthcedars in Olympiawhich shoot straight up to Heaven.It’s been three years since you feltthe numbness in your handsand your illness is stilla… Read more ›
you started as a humble shepherd fed the poor and soon became the patron saint of cooks and kitchens but absent-minded as I am I know you best as the finder of lost things I´ll do a little dance for… Read more ›
Survivors they hang on like plants well past their season dolled up in beehive hairdos heavy mascara and rouged cheeks the earth may want them but damned if they’ll go gently into that awful night to be acknowledged only… Read more ›