Author at Large
Thrilled the TAG Gallery in Los Angeles accepted my photograph CoGen for the 2019 California Exhibition. Their juror, Ruth Weisbergchose 110 artworks for this year’s exhibition from 1,400+submissions received nationwide. The exhibition runs from August 7 through August 23 and the artists’ reception and awards ceremony is on Saturday, August 10, from 5 to 8 pm.
Powder Puff Football I sit at the top of the stands alone, watching high school girls play flag football. Teens walk across and up and down bleachers confident their youth holds promise. Weary parents sit out their Wednesday night no lonelier than at home. Seniors huddle before a long fourth down. Make it or turn …
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April 11, 2000 In the darkened hospital a baby cries fresh cut from her mother. I, new father, whisper over the girl’s fragile head. A blessing for her. “Oh me, Oh Life of the questions ever recurring.” Walt Whitman old man with butterfly eyes. Old man who gave me answers to questions I didn’t think …
I knock on the door. Rap a tapping tap like some musty raven to wake Sophia so she can get ready and go to school. “Ugggg…” like the not quite so dead discovering she is on the wrong side of the crypt door or sealed up behind a wall. Or worse yet the dead being …
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The incoming texts bleep both girls’ phones. Heads down, thumbs dashing off messages. They both look up and ask, “Can we have sleepovers?” At first I am leery. The last multi-girl sleepover entailed me losing at least two years off my life just due to casting spells to reassure youngsters that no witches could get …
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The pot’s about to boil. It’s about to billow steam. The first curls rise from the surface and beads of air cling to the sides of the pot. I am held in that moment where it is too early to drop in the linguine, but too close as to set it down. The sauce is …
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I awoke. The light streamed slantwise through louvre style blinds across the double bed for one. Groggy and reaching for the iPhone, I knock over the wine glass. It falls and hits the carpet with the thump of a cat paw. At night, I have a glass of wine or a bottle of beer or …
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