Poetry
Jaded
“Every day I return a little less of me | A little more of them.”
Poetry
Close
An existentialist love poem.
Poetry
There Was a Time
Willingness to be taken over.
Poetry
One Nothing
“You own everything | sometimes | and don’t know what else | to do | but take it | until it stops being given.â€
Short Story
Tears of Glass
Brushing fifteen years of dust off a piano the narrator’s mother used to play.
Poetry
Grandmother
An honest, loving portrait.
Poetry
Your Last Winter
Learning to fear not just his own mortality, but that of loved ones. Written for the poet’s 96-year-old grandmother.
Short Story
The Undreaming
Published just before her twentieth birthday, a prolific and gifted writer’s final contribution to this website. Of it, she writes, “This story takes place in old Nepal, during the Rana regime when the Rana family had control over the country and borrowed richly from the British Raj.â€
Poetry
Grandma
Specific memories—all these insignificants—conjure up deep emotions.
Poetry
Obsession
Searching for love and finding something equally profound.
Poetry
Drowning
“I didn’t think I’d be alive today. | I’ve died far too many times for one life.”
Poetry
Pasado, Paradise, Passion
A short, playful series of personal images.