Rain

I was holding my cat, looking in the mirror at her, and behind me I saw motion. A leak from the ceiling onto the middle of the living room rug. Very 2020 of you, ceiling, I said. Though I should have castigated the roof and the attic. I did my usual walk to coffee and […]

At Home

Paris, London, Rome, the three places in Europe I’ve visited. They were all broken. Cities that were whipped by the evils of World War II. Terrible things had happened there, and no one thought it was all for the best, or that people had learned a lesson, or that everything happens for a reason. Hundreds […]

Yesterday

The light woke me, because snow was amplifying it. I pulled my head under my covers. I achieved a pretzel shape that felt perfect, fetal. The really-you-must-get-up alarm chimed, one of many Apple noises that all sound like noooooo to me. I pulled myself out of bed, loaded the coffee maker, opened and dumped cat […]

Thank You

Fully drugged for minimum anxiety, I looked hard at my phone as Candy Crush’s pale sliver grew to a full square. I was so nervous to give blood. Not to be stuck, I tolerate that, but to think I might think of being drained of what I needed? Or my lingering gulp from when my […]