People You Know By Heart

—COUNT THE HEADLIGHTS ON THE HIGHWAY     Poetry Unbound  /  Padraig O Tuama, part one   “…in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that...

—CRY IN THE NIGHT, IF IT HELPS   Almost School   I tuck all the grim clouds into my socks way down by the holey heel pad where the gloom wil...

  —MAYBE ALL WE NEED IS TIME   …I hope your holiday was, and still is, fantastic. Here, we are celebrating Thanksgiving today, with a very f...

  —I SHOULD LAUGH BUT THE JOKE NEVER LANDED     on the beach   on the beach they’re all eating sand handfuls of grit the tide a retreating m...

  —YOU OUTTA POCKET     The Emperor’s Old Clothes          And you can have it all, my empire of dirt.  “Hurt,” Nine Inch  Nails     Afterwa...

  —EVERY SECOND IS A SECOND WE CAN’T TAKE BACK     …Expectations are a tricky thing.   …Waiting to hear from someone is a yearning that’s co...

  —YOU CAN’T GET FOUND IF YOU NEVER GET LOST     thaw   It’s winter and everyone I know is dead or dying. Nothing will thaw. The wind kisses...