The Static Life

We have come to a threshold, maybe crossed over. Like gawky newlyweds. We are no longer the people we once thought we were, which is to say,...

AP photo of a protestor in Haiti I cannot see her face, but she is beautiful. Black skinned, muscled taut in fury. I can see her shoulder bl...

The anticipation is often the best of it. The dream drowsy cigarettes on the fire escape over Spanish Harlem. The insomniatic hour at the po...

Right now, I am up with the fallow, pearly morning. Doing the dishes slowly by hand. Listening to dead Delta blues men. Dancing a bit, poorl...

First snow. Nearly dawn. What I wouldn’t do for a cigarette. Or, a grapefruit, halved, drizzled with a pinch, or two, of sugar.

A lovely girl, wrapped like a child in an oversized blanket. She lets it fall open in front, like a tent flap. Ashen skin, the puerile pink ...