The things you joke about during the day can fill you with dread in the middle of the night.

A few more moments of oblivion
before facing it all.

A surprisingly common admixture of spiritually adept and psychologically unaware.

What were thought to be diseases turned out to be the body’s unsuccessful attempts at healing.

At closing time we patched our wounds, finished our drinks and headed into the summer night.

Passing Rockland Psych Center, saw dead dog on side of road.
Wept for next 38 miles.
Just when you think there’s nothing left, there it is again.

Life stages
1) unfolding
2) refolding

They kept the empty high chair in its place at the table long past the time it was needed. It was astonishing that an inanimate object could retain a faint half-life of the love that had centered on it so many years before.

His dog had lost all respect for him, or could no longer stand his scent. Either way, oil spots on the driveway were of more interest to her, and on the rare occasions they occupied the same room, she abstained from meeting his eye.