My words have sometimes hurt people; they have hurt me. They didn’t come out as poems, they came out as barf, as missiles when I have been hurt and am angry and want to hurt back. I wish I could…

From Wikipedia: “Rabbits hold widespread cultural significance as symbols of fertility, abundance, and new life, a connection stemming from their rapid reproduction. They also represent cleverness and transformation, seen in trickster figures like Br'er Rabbit and the Moon Rabbit of…

[back to fiction] Amelia scanned the village's plaza opposite her hotel. At noon the only shadows are two black squares under the two empty benches. Behind them, a fountain sits dry nearby with not even a weed growing along its…

Hope is a thing with feathers--a bird, but what kind of bird? One of those cheery, bouncy sparrows that fly down to you when you sit on a park bench? A crow who embodies the hope that you'll feed it…

Poetry is what we think and do not say because we're not used to anyone listening, no one has ever said, hey, she's worth listening to. No, our parents told us be quiet or shut up mind your own business…

A group of beings just like her, long like her, walked so serenely down the swampy banks towards a crazy tinted orange and purple sunset that, despite all the gentle plopping sounds of their hooves, they almost seemed to glide.…

When my in-laws, John and Masako Yamamoto, were planning the celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary, their daughters, Sandy and Patty gave me the job of finding the cake, because they knew I liked sweets. I researched and found a…

And then there are the birders, a glum-seeming group who appear occassionally at the marsh. They come in small groups, park carelessly, and glare at as I pass as if my gentle plods are going to disturb whatever hides in…

(This is the close of the two scenes you read previously.) I waited until his SUV pulled out onto the road, then turned back to the path I’d worn in the snow along the edge of the pit. “You don’t…

Scene: The party roared around me, in the tropical heat of the evening , and it had already reached a point where pieces of clothing were being thrown off and into the surrounding bushes..and now she is singing, the dumpy…

Make nothing without words --and--and pictures! Mental pictures so real you can see them and feel them. Be sure you know what you're talking about. Not just raining but raining cats and dogs. Not just poor but poor as an…

She has been told that her paintings are beautiful. Is it her paintings or is it the world? Does she make them beautiful or is that just how they appear to her. She remembers a world that wasn't beautiful. Not…