Tag Archives: Psychological Realism

FIRE Word Count: 191 Sometimes it is more than I think I can handle and I need to turn down the flames. The dogs who need homes, the children with flies flickering their eyelids, the washed away homes that flow … Continue reading →

LUNA MOTH Word Count: 444 She dreamed of having wings, though that is not unusual her psychiatrist said. “People who have an extraordinary fear, real or at least real to them, tend to dream of escape from the thing or … Continue reading →

NATURAL LANGUAGE Word Count: 300 One of those moments happens, the instant that flies by in the guise of two blue herons flying low overhead against a summer still-light nine o’clock sky. I take it as a sign of confirmation. … Continue reading →

THE MOMENT Word Count: 295 The morning rises gray and threatening. The buildings I thought so tall and stately form a scaffold that holds the tarp of sky. Otherwise I think it would fall and smother us, grind our faces … Continue reading →

EYE CONTACT Word Count: 242 He was coming one way; I, the other. I’d crossed a bridge and slowed to a halt at the four-way stop. He roared up about the same time and as drivers always do, we locked … Continue reading →

CLOTHES MAKE THE WOMAN; THE WOMAN, HER CLOTHES Word Count: 238 I grow my clothes like layers of skin, of linen and cotton and the softest fine wool. I can weave what I want with the fiber that spools through … Continue reading →

BACKPACKING SPIDERS AND MONKEYS OF NOTE Word Count: 315 It’s growing. Now I can feel it, spider-leg fingers melting the skin on my shoulders. Hot, it is. Hot streaks that will blister. I search with my back to the mirror. … Continue reading →

OBSESSIONS Word Count: 492 The girl in the television commercial scrubs her face as if she were laying cement. Trowels moving like ice skaters over the surface. I am inspired. I use a gardening soap of pumice. It is rough … Continue reading →