Rereading Bashō is always a pleasure / a great reminder of what made me return to a notion of poetry pared down. The flower itself // the mo...

Air palpable with earnest outcries read to the appropriate audience words spent on prayers to gods too busy to grant wishes (From m...

Embrace the break in weather where you can. True, there are months when the last time you saw the sun feels like a dream; but when the...

The middle-aged black man was wearing a blue suit coat that was too big for him, worn around the cuffs, and missing a couple of button...

I was traveling when my wife and got together. Our courtship was one of distance and of patience: letters, emails, phone calls when a ch...