Tag: sonnet
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Bourbon Over Ice
San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is a cash-only bar: exact change, please. I learned this when I went to pay the fee for release of my car from impoundment which was towed during Labor Day weekend because of expired registration tags. The evening after I got my car back I thought of the sound the…
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Divorce Boats
That’s what our guide called the tandem kayaks our tour group used to explore the ocean – an epithet, he explained, that comes from how the boats split labor between partners: the person in the bow paddles forward while the one at stern uses the rudder; both can see the course ahead, but the two…
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Quiet Joe
I went to daycare at the house next door to my parents’ in a small Vermont town. The husband of the woman who watched us always smoked his pipe while he mowed the lawn. An adult now, when I smell tobacco or fresh-cut grass, I think of quiet Joe, taciturn in the midst of our…
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Which Way We Sleep
It is a little-known fact that babies asleep in their cribs will shift themselves into alignment with earth’s rotation: tops of heads face west, tiny feet point east. Getting older, we become attracted to either one of the opposite poles: north and south each beckon our loyalty while our weary bodies lie in bed. But…
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Written in the Woods
When I hike in the woods, after a while, something about pebbles and leaf litter strewn across the trail looks familiar, like words and sentences in a novel. I am almost convinced if I paid close enough attention, I would be able to read this as a book laid out on a scroll that unfurls…
From the Firefly Galaxy 