1. During the space race days your parents sip Maxwell House in the morning, Beefeater before dark. Through bedroom walls…

It is a cast-iron frying pan filled with cigarette butts. The handle is just the right size for my hand…

I’d use a soda siphon at cocktail hour, and you’d only know I’m speaking when my chin quivers. And it…

During a commercial, I ask you to tell me about nights in the jungle. We are blue and then white…

You don’t remember Grammy saying the words, although you were there. You were the baby. You’ve heard the story a…

First, blanch the peaches. Run them under cold water to peel their skin away. Feel the flesh underneath. This is…

Jack is sixteen when he sees Marie the first time, then 84 when he sees her again, though he doesn’t…

The passion with which she took to the house and garden surprised him. She told him her grandmother taught her…

Five hungry blonde girls, sitting pertly on their haunches, holding court in the lounge. You all live on the same…

Multilingual We’re in the garden.  There are fragrances there, fluent in many languages.  Cassie digs, plants, pats the earth.  We’ll…