An amorphous sculpture of a Thai man holding a doll-sized, but otherwise lifelike, Adolf Hitler puppet provocatively greets visitors to Bangkok’s Museum…
29 May 2015
Flying Trapeze in Koh Tao, Thailand
I first visited Koh Tao, a tiny island—7 kilometers by 3 kilometers—off Thailand’s southwest coast nearly 13 years ago. Back…
16 April 2015
Goddess: Poetry
You are a piece of the sun scorching the earth, sparking bonfires and wildfires and rumors. You are infinite, ancient,…
3 April 2015
Fiction/Manali
January 2007 Geneva Geneva awakens in the backseat as the jeep hits a patch of ice, skids towards an eighteen-wheeler…
19 March 2015
J’ai Tant Reve de Toi
Like Scheherazade, she weaves her tales, stringing words together as if they are charms, adding stars and rubies and angel wings…
8 February 2015
Santa Fe Miracle #1
Santa Fe’s Frank Ortiz dog park is a sprawling mishmash of trails and brush, winding through an arroyo and up…
21 January 2015
Learning to Fly, Learning to Live
On the day I flew without safety lines for the first time, it was a Tuesday morning in April, the…
16 January 2015
The Shaman of Port Authority
I stand in front of Port Authority in New York, bundled in fleece and faux down, scarf wrapped up to…
8 January 2015
The Game of Life
Mark left when the snow arrived. He’d shown up in Scranton last spring, his California tan ruddied from his time…
31 December 2014
Inspiration: Writing
Inspiration—Origin: Middle English (in the sense “divine guidance”); via Old French from Late Latin. Literally, in spirit. My favorite piece…