A Body Parts Comedy
Do you remember ten springs ago? Back in that season of renewal, I remember gulping down IPAs at a now-closed dive bar with my roommates. At Market & Fremont, we […]
Do you remember ten springs ago? Back in that season of renewal, I remember gulping down IPAs at a now-closed dive bar with my roommates. At Market & Fremont, we […]
After the life of Kevin Bryson By a tall fire I want to hug, I know Cesium-137 traveled from Atomic Age detonation into the water cycle. Since marking […]
I broke my New Year’s Day leg on a Kansas riverbank. When a snail slimed to my safety, she braced my limb into a fusion of movement up up through […]
At home, I check the tagon my rainbow shirt: made in India.The tag on my vintage-looking jeans:made in China. The tagon my boxer briefs: made in Mexico. As I walk my […]
I skimmed a news headline about some scientist finding sugar in oxygen. So I’m cutting out oxygen for a year. You mustn’t worry or drag your worry to […]
Remember when a gun got found in a kid’s backpack at our daughter’s elementary school. As soon as she breathed back home, I sped over to feel her heartbeat […]
You Step into an Oakland Day down neighborhood sidewalks cracked by finger roots. Down MLK Way across from Marcus Books, you breach MLK Cafe, buy your regular […]
“Who are you?” I yelled at a woodpecker pecking a bedroom nest in my one-bedroom apartment. “Are you Alder?” the woodpecker chatters back. “Yes. This is my Oakland apartment.” “Well […]
“How are you, Clementine?” “—.” “Why can’t you talk?” Clementine opens her mouth to reveal a frog in her throat. “Why is there a frog in your throat?” Clementine […]