Family Dynamics
Writing that explores the complexities of family dynamics—childhood memories, generational patterns, small domestic moments, and the quiet tensions and tenderness that shape who we become. Poems and essays rooted in the emotional terrain of family life.
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Have You Seen My Story?
A lyric essay about searching for a lost story through surreal visits to a friend, an old lover, and a mother who can no longer answer clearly.
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Grandfather ( From Blurring the House)
My grandfather’swatching Friday Night Fightson an old black-and-white20-inch television. He calls me over,pats the seat beside him,starts teaching methe finer points of boxing—uppercuts,jabs,the bob and weave. He cracks openhis one can of Coors.…
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On Being Balthazar
What his father is saying feels as fake as a wooden sunset or as false as a tin cloud or is it true? True as soap, honest as sugar cookies or salt? Balthazar…
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The City of Backward Glances
There is a girl who lives here, some where on this narrow street – the girl with all those unknowns sewn on her arms like sleeves the girl who is constantly followed by…
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Cassiopeia
I wait like my grand mother on the steamship between Romania and Ellis Island The in- between before arriving. Boredom — the not knowing for what one is waiting. My grand mother is…
