Claiming Alexandria

The End No one knows what they will sing at the end. I’ll most likely need a drink (Cheers, A!), but since I won’t know it, I may not have t...

In Between Sometimes, large swaths of time are lost in queues, listening to the elevator music of call centers, waiting for the truck to arr...

Blue Sheep & Other Mysteries You teach me the basics of pusoy dos (as I take notes) and, tonight, you ask me to watch Dawn of the 16th w...

Folding They say that it is an art. But which one? Forward, with knuckles pressed near my toes? Wearily, back bent over the sofa, dividing s...

The Details I trace the line of your cheek. I wonder if I can still do it, commit your face to paper. I don’t take my eyes off you. I guess ...

Dear Son I know you’re not sorry about breaking that glass in anger, but the dishes don’t choose you, nor does the laundry, the trash, the b...

Post-Apocalyptic Strawberry Shortcake The things we will miss the most: coffee brewing, dinner dates at our favorite cafe, newly baked straw...

This Friday On our anniversary, you cooked chicken gyros and attempted to bake bread (I bought dinner rolls at the neighborhood store, inste...

Entangled Even when the heady days are done and the light isn’t so dramatic I sink back into the steadiness of your hands and my constant re...

  Laundry Is up there with death and taxes and you take me through it patiently. In this case, I’m just the brawn. “This is how we do it, Mo...

  One Hundred and One There are some days that speed past me, I hardly recall a moment. Except for that tiny detail. “Will you play with me?...

  Light My Way “Take my picture, Mommy,” she says because the light is pretty at sunset even if she has a mask on. “And I want Sparta in it....

  Neighbor There is no lack in this world other than the ones we invent or the ones we create in our with- holding. A very long time ago, ou...

  Inhuman Things hum around us all the time, a veritable forest of sound, generators, light bulbs, electric fans. We don’t really listen bec...

  Piece of Earth In the past week, two people have told me about their dreams of a farm — or at the very least a small vegetable garden. It ...

  Ring We circle back to this sore spot, over and over, finding myriad, bare- knuckled ways of saying what’s wrong. We get so creative, we f...

  Transylvania 1982 Sabrina dies at dawn and this was my mind blown at our basement after my father brought home a family computer and a col...

  Tanuki I stand for mischief and play and change. I stand for fortune and luck by your door. But, mostly, you will not find me at all. Like...

  Koinobori Dear ones, we’ve given you the longest waterfall to climb. I saved some gifts in my pocket but I think the ones you will most ne...

  Wonder Is this really the same place? We moved a few things here and there. We threw a lot of things out. Things, things, things, find the...