I start lucky. Two friends in Southeast Alaska have a permit and a boat and invite me to join them as a deckhand, gillnetting. For three summers, we share a bunk and work within a few feet of each other, coming back to Juneau most weekends...
All the rain in the world
is falling, makinga door you can’t open.
We made a dance of all the ways
we’d hurt our bodies.
Is EMDR a psychotherapeutic breakthrough, pseudoscience, or a little bit of both?
An itinerant photographer has set up his camera, lights, and chair in a local grocery store. This was many years ago. I was there, I saw it myself.
Toward a New Black Solidarity
The forest opens wide then closes once
After curbing what hasn’t sold
I sit across the street and spy on people
taking what this morning was mine.
