The Successful Navigation of Pre-K — It is never advisable to put the dinosaurs in the pen with the goats I try explaining this to Nora, her hazel eyes wide dark hair streaming shoes gleaming, equipped with flashing lights too her small form contained in a pink princess shirt No! she says They go in there! …

Flash Fiction — All about the front yard, Baby ran barefoot through the sparse buffalo grass, the hard clay dirt peeking through it in big gaps, him grinning with that toothy grin. Baby was happy. Ma had five kids; Baby was the youngest at three-years-old. …

Just Another Monday… — I thought I would fit in at the Owl Factory assembling the multi-colored felt owls matching their personalities to beady sets of eyes. Even the creepy guy next to me wasn’t much of a bother at first… his smirking critiques fell off my sallow skin as if it were waterproof, …

Journey of a Matriarch The old moon she became invisible during the day the brutal sun, always pushing her back she made her way in two seasons between two forks of the road in the desert days of cold winds of hot sandstorm gusts and her children were rocks stone dumb, unmoved by the north wind A life of…

A star rises and sets — Aye, the strains of a Techno-Cumbia beat bounce across South Texas A lively specter emerges En una luz brillante Como La Flor! Memories of Selena She is there dancing, dressed in fiery red, The music flows through her Bidi, Bidi, Bidi, Bom Bom! Young, effusive, her star so bright! Her…

Revisiting the ‘Coyotes’ Episode — I loved to spend the night with Nanny and Granddad on the farm out in the middle of flat nowhere. It wasn’t as bad as one may think; there was lots to do and lots to wonder about. …

Somewhere there is a history —

And Just Why Is That? — Why, why then do certain things exist on the Earth today: carnivorous wasps flying spiders freshman? Why is war allowed? and potholes? not to mention sinkholes, large enough to swallow a house…. Why hurricanes? and Lymphoma? Why the constant muscle-pulled pain of hips? the bum knee? …

Incantation Poetry —