Following a cobblestone path to an unexpected stage, in innocence I would watch moving dolls playact a story for the masses. I stood in a purple corduroy dresses reflecting on my patent leather shoes. It was hot. The hosts hid underneath a camouflage mysterious as the church alter. I barely understood the litany from those [...]

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East Boulder Community Center has a fence for lost articles. I’m certain of it. The woman’s locker room has a sign that says “East Boulder Community Center is not responsible for lost or stolen articles. Please report problems to staff immediately.” Now why would they care if they aren’t responsible? They want to KNOW, that’s [...]

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The Night I Lost More Than My Dinner Looking back, I was ready to pass the lei that summer. I was seventeen, newly in college, away from mom and dad, and it was SUMMER. . I may as well have put a sign around my neck: “My virginity. Take it. Then I won’t worry about [...]

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“I want to live in your camera, take a picture of my heart with yours.” Joseph Arthur-Evidence How do you like that Rebel? Remember that camera, the thousand dollar picture taker you came into my house and stole, ripped off, lifted. Do you get a high every time you click the shutter at someones body [...]

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Every time I search For my lost keys I think of you. In my coat, at the bottom of a purse, in a messy drawer hiding underneath the bed, in a shoe, in my left shirt pocket. A place I would look to retrieve something hidden in my memory that I still need to get [...]

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into a second life    growing to emerge again          an embryo floats closer to the earth    a person can see clearly          leaning on a cane with a broken wing    leaving feathers behind her          an eagle soaring a surfer watches    riding the curl of a wave          a breaching whale zooms toward the sun    a skier changes her [...]

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When I was young I believed I would keep the same friends forever. My very first friend was a boy named Charlie. Charlie lived across the street in one of the better kept track houses that we all owned. Charlie’s family had dichondra while most of us had crabgrass. Dichondra is fancy one leaf round [...]

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