santa fe/new mexico I contemplate the circular black standing Lasko fan’s whirring propeller jjjzjzjzjjjng as it vacillates toward my lavender…
In the Southwest Reading Room at the Santa Fe Public Library, I sit in a heavy straight-backed Mission Style chair…
santa fe/new mexico Boo has always let me go. Not as in giving me permission, but in understanding I needed…
kengeri hobli/india On the first anniversary of my father’s death, I dream I telephone him. “Hello,” my Dad says on…
boulder/colorado It’s just after Christmas and Ann and I are sitting on her leather sofa in her home in Boulder,…
boulder/colorado My sister Ann and I are having a glass of Malbec after the Thanksgiving holiday in Boulder, reminiscing about…
varanasi/india Three weeks after my father dies, I travel to India on a pre-arranged contract to facilitate an English intensive…
laguna woods/california I stayed with my father during his last six weeks, sleeping on the floor in the sad rental…
laguna hills/california While my Dad sleeps, I do yoga in his lamplit room, background sound the steady labor of his…