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Fresh Basil
I walk around blissfully, humming Sinatra songs and absorbing my surroundings, as though I’ve never been in my own kitchen. I look on as chopped garlic springs to life, trying to …
Sense of You
My lips will always remember the taste of you, salty and sweet, with a hint of spearmint. My fingers will never forget how it felt to caress your skin, your smooth shoulders and back, …
Thayer Street
I laid on my stomach on that old futon we turned into a bed by adding an extra mattress and pretending the support bars didn’t dig into our bones while we slept, in the basement a…
Bartending For Dummies
Please pick your poison / Cheap beer or a martini with a twist / I’m your friend and your confidante / Your shrink and your pharmacist Take two shots of Jack / You’ll feel worse in the morning …
Syntax Lullaby
We dreamily dance a tired tango / of matchless lovely language / Each sleepy sultry word waltzes / and pirouettes off our tangled tongues / Our assonant association flows freely / until we both drift…
Life As Poetry
The late afternoon sun at my back transforms me into a fifteen-foot shadow and creates a thin, dark line of shade which abuts the chipping yellow curb. The small depression formed by the trowel of the…
