Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
Little blessing for suicidal child
I am driving in late day sunlight
when a girl in a silver car aims
for me and quick as an email
from hell, sails to my address.
Her stare obliterates me, empties...
Invocation beside the ocean
You, who were not in the candleflame, not
in the Mass this morning, season after season
why do you keep silence? Come. Roll in on breakers...
October, before anyone else is up
With its many brooms
the cold breeze is sweeping
red leaves from...
Here we come, world, June 6th, 2015
In her right hand she clutches red and purple
wildflowers, her long flaxen hair tumbling
from its bun, her slender fingers laced
in his burly fingers, trying to knit one...
The failing student
Her tattoos, her way of pulling back her lips
the way a stallion does when he won’t take
the bit....
The cobbler goes out of business
We check the empty rooms, close the door.
Music vanishes. Finches flash by
and disappear. ...
Ordinary grace
The reversals in this book aren’t easy. There is nothing sentimental or giddy about them. They are real. They are ordinary.