Long Sleeves
If you had had just a little more time, I might have pulled up my sleeve to show you the bruises.
Dreamers Reading Room
When You Write My Eulogy
Don’t mention my divorce or deferred adolescence but apologize
for the times I was a lousy parent.
Dreamers Magazine Issue 8
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Barbed Wilderness
He’s tired of feeling like a criminal. He’s tired of being in a country that needed him, needed his people, but didn’t want their kind.
Immigrant
I am | the Other Side of the story, the face | from a picture book | whose title | you cannot | pronounce: | In another life | I forged with you across continents,
Dispersal Lessons
Animals move—it’s our birthright, a gift from ancient ancestors in the form of genes that could eventually code for leg or wing or fin.
‘I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land’ Exodus 2:22
The boat stares back with many eyes. Some closed in prayer, others close to fainting. A few people imagine childhood homes or hold photos of a small Italian port. Some cry. Some are confused.
A Roadmap of Scars
I do know that slowly, my own heart healed as patients and families invited me into the special intimacy of illness.
Rest in Peace
The roots of a dysfunctional family are deeper than unhealthy thinking; they are steel wire cords.