Strawberry red Light magenta Neon pink Violet Indigo purple Rose clair Deep indigo Iris blue Florescent pink Plum Dioxazine Purple...

Coke-can red and center stage, the twelve-string electric guitar shined, impatient for its player to take the stage. Smoke eddied...

I revere footnotes They are Matthew Chapter One—the begetting passage-- The list of names no one can pronounce --- names given – It reads...

Three weeks ago, a little bird clung perilously to the uppermost twig of an enormous tree outside my small ordinary window, a tiny black...

Pearl Divers Off island shores in Ago Bay, The Ama mermaids dive all day, Looking for the pearls. No tackle, trim, no weights; just mask...

Is all of this really necessary? This frittering over words, this endless search for metaphor and meaning in what is by and large the...