the earth is turning under our toes   and in each toe my heart beats it’s a heavier beat stretching to my last toe pushing through through the small fingers…

Today as he woke up—the birds were chirping just outside the window. One tree seemed to be filled with birds, perhaps the flowers on this tree were the ones, which…

When she woke up the sun hit right above her eyebrows. She felt it reach farther down to her lips and to her stomach. “I awake!” she could hear the…

When their laughter had finally settled in their bodies, they sat on the moist earth and continued to watch an algorithem so expertly designed, so decisively executed, that they never…

And when he died, and I really couldn’t imagine how I would continue to live without this voice, until I realized I would always have that voice in my days.…

We Dance the Blue Right Out We dance forever under the ground We dance our coffins down We dance the dirt clods’ bounce, the rain We dance the blue right…

When the sounds from the street crept into her apartment she felt the orange flowers poking in from the square that lay just outside the door. Lia moved the couch around…

I’m here in a long goodbye, one that might not end but I might just hold as I grow and the world grows with me.  Meghan O’Rourke captures it beautifully:…