Xanadu
 

I guess we didn’t have much left to say. You can’t replant a dead tree, you know? But from that decomposing stump— something will thrive....

- for Dad, after Jan Heller Levi I think you’re most yourself when you are cooking; slicing the food with each chop, the funny way you...

The temperature sits around 34 degrees Fahrenheit, clock anxiously clicking at around 2 in the morning. A vehicle or two pass by me,...

Mom would say “We’re going to Jones,” and my siblings and I would pile into the car. I was always excited to spend the day on the warm...

I was a bright cherry red before the many rains gradually, stealthily marred and rusted my beauty. The craters that once contained my...

To us, the marching of ants makes no sound. To them, a bustling parade where each colonist proudly displays their sugary-sweet fruits or...

For years and years, I’ve been dogged around by you. You’re a horrid handler, by the way. All the times you’ve tied me to the fence and...

Another human fell down I hear all about it from the Royal Guard who patrols here every day and a man with a cart trying to make a sale...

Why do you pull my spine in every which way and then hit me on old walls and hardwood floors to warm me up? I was made by a little old...

Stock after stock, push after push, shelf after shelf. Empty shelves renewed of their toys; Kids and adults sweeping them away, toying...