Walk
I’m squeezing snow into heel-shaped wafersas blank-flavored as this air, from which all impurities have fallenbecause it is so cold. The far away is louder than the nearbecause it is so quiet here.The only sound is squeaking, squeezing snow.
I sure hope not.
Professor Vallone keeps saying that I am a researcher, but I’m pretty sure that I am an old woman reading poetry on the porch of her cabin in the mountains. I must go there to meet her. Country road, take … Continued
not my own
When the toaster oven timer quit ticking, I paused from preparing a lesson plan for students I still don’t have. Someday I’ll find out if preparing lesson plans really takes so much time. I hear that I won’t really find … Continued
Scars from a Semester
It’s easiest to see the scars when it’s cold. One is on my left hand, on the middle knuckle. Sometime while I was lugging my luggage from Heathrow to my hostel the handle of the rolling one took off a … Continued
Election Night
I promise to be in bed in an hour, which might work out to be right around the sugar low of the giant bowl of ice cream that I just ate. It was for the election. Ice cream is the … Continued
summer and winter
I saw it snow today. First time since the night I sat behind the wing and watched them de-ice the plane as we counted down the last ten seconds before 2008. I’ve seen snow since then– that mountain range somewhere … Continued
Waking up.
Lately: I wake up and hit the snooze button at 7:50 and turn back towards the wall, burying my face in my body pillow, wanting to sleep again. But I dread that noise, so within nine minutes I turn and … Continued
like the monarch
I wonder if the monarch knewthat he was about to die.It would be the last time he flew.Tears welled up in my eyes as I stopped my walk along the highwayand stooped to hold someone more broken down than me.The … Continued
Hope
Sunshine coming this way.My boyfriend said it would be here in a day.Living over there, he gets the weather first.He lives ten hours from here.How far is that? One fourth of a year.Seven weeks now, so it could be worse.