Sixteen Seconds
When I was fourteen they held a personal defense training for all the girls in my high school. It took
sixteen seconds
Little Bird
The hottest month of the hottest year
on record. August in Texas. Unrelenting.
Mother had died just the month before.
My mother. The world kept burning.
Funeral
You’re a carefree, bouncy kid
who still enjoys the little things like
the sticky summer season every year
and riding horses and fishing
at the old docks past sunset.
Watering the Trees
Seeing the neighbor watering his pear tree,
I see my father watering the mulberry trees
in our yard.