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THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENTS PAST On our twelfth year’s Christmas we triedTo find ourselves the kind of couple whoSwings but instead it became you me &A third wheel who all but wrapped mouthsAround our ornamented curriculum vitaeBlushing we offered ourselves peppermintParty shooters w/ a real bad name Santa’sFrosty NippleContinue Reading

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When my husband, Doug, and I lived on Cuesta Grade in SLO, I started dreaming about this man in a blue uniform with a name tag. This dream kept coming back, but I could never make out the name. It was a recurring dream which had a sense of urgencyContinue Reading

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I (in i Takei, a/k/a Fiji, circa 1840) Drumming thrumming through thick forest treesmakes hearts race – the i Takei freeze,listening to the lali, wooden drumtelling what has passed or what’s to come. Do i uauas beat a celebrationsounding boisterous congratulationsto a mother nursing her newborn?Is the lali’s resonance forlornContinue Reading

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In the House only soundA few notes of Chopin in the nightVoices echo and drift in old wallsImprisoned perhaps for centuriesA dog whines from the atticThe sound wavering, plaintiveWater’s still running in the old pantryA skipping rope thumps insistentlyHigh above on the nursery floorTennis balls thud on ghostly racquetsIn tournamentsContinue Reading

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From the Oxford English Dictionary, 5th Edition © 2123: ghost word [ɡōst wərd] n. a word in a dictionary or another collection of words that is not a real word and is usually there because of a mistake1 phantomnation [ˈfantəmˈnāSHən] n. 1. Also known as ectolinguistics; the study or attemptContinue Reading

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A lonely evening, naught in sightbut muted hue of red and blue;the distant glare of corner’s lightwhere few will tread the path at night. You see a figure by the door,a palish white, a moment’s fright,the ghost of some provincial lore—a lonely shore on barren moor. It’s quickly gone, asContinue Reading