colors dance
yellow leaves skate past the patio door, their desiccated shapes fragile and torn. perhaps this year i’ll let november breezes rake them...
sitting by a fire
the cool desert air feels crisp as an evening breeze kisses my skin and invigorates these tired bones. huddled by a slowly...
Not Easily Mended
“You have retreated from life,” Abuelita says between lines of stitches fired with machine-gun precision into other people’s clothes. Absorbed by the...
an unforgettable fire
from the bed she motions me closer, her dark eyes alluring and deep like uncharted oceans which pull me in. willingly, i...
cloudburst
a downpour slaps mildewed concrete abutting my sliding door, its staccato applause echoing the low rumble of distant thunder. beyond my backyard’s...
if only the rain
if only the rain washing dusty streets after weeks of summer drought felt cool on parched skin. if only the rain howling...
evening song
cicadas fill the stagnant, humid air with their song. the sound is deafening as i stroll a gravel path beneath hundred-year-old oaks...
heat waves
six straight days of ninety-eight degrees have kept me locked indoors. my overworked ceiling fan whines and wobbles but can’t cool this...