A Must-Have for the Holidays
Because I am 23 and not married, do not have at least one child, cannot fit my old jeans over […]
Poems
Single Mom Finally in Repose
A father & son are having
a water balloon fight.
They invite me to join,
but I’ve got the skittish dog
w/ me, the one who took
a good six years to trust us.
It’s Me Again
What if a new year dawns & I don’t change?
Each January finds me as I was:
still moribund, still sensitive & strange.
After Rain
Image: “Paradigm Shift” by Morgan Reed. “After Rain” was written by Michael Pfeifer for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, December 2024, and selected as the Editor’s Choice.
Functional Convergence
If a taxi is untaxied outside
the Herald Square Macy’s
on Christmas Eve like a kind of post
-modern Vitruvian centerpiece,
a kind of heavy metal suckling
pig, how much will the damage
—assuming no insurance coverage
—how much will the damage damage
the cabby’s next one hundred afternoons?
I Can’t Sleep So I’ll Tell You a Story
Every cricket chirping sounds, to me,
like my son’s garage band must sound
to the neighbor who calls, twice a week,
and threatens to call the cops, but never does.