Give It a Year
“A stunt book,” the reviewer called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, because Barbara
Kingsolver had dedicated a year of her life to organic vegetables, and she had
subsequently written about it.
I wasn’t sure
Humanity
For Victoria Crawford
I am, at weak times, a creature seeking comfort, trolling the internet at all
hours of the night, grasping facts and calling them truth, searching for someone
who will tell it straight, hold
4 o’clock
I.
The light is with us
for a little while longer.
Ice is puddled under
the groaning snow and the cracking
of trees. Our shadows
on the ground are blue,
and strewn with
A Trail of Belongings
May 1, 2010.
In between grading a tower of research papers and jogging through Chicago parks,
I begin to help my husband pack our stuff. We’re not sure when we’ll see
A Neighborly Kind of Quiet
Six and some odd years ago, I downsized. I’d grown up in one of the biggest
Atlanta suburbs, and gone to school in the small city of Athens, Georgia. It was
time