I don’t want to be one of those people folded over a cell phone screen like a larva, sucking from … More
Tag: E. D. Watson
CARNIVORE’S PRAYER
Heaven knows I’m not proud of being a meat-eater, but something in me growls and snorts and licks its jowls … More
PRAYER BECAUSE MY LIFE IS NOT A MEME
They say raise your fist, stand in your truth, speak it loud and clear but I can only kneel in … More
PRAYER AGAINST BEING AN ASSHOLE
O father help me not to stare, wide-eyed, when my brother falls. Help me not to sniff his breath for … More
Prayer Against Materialism
What is a psalm a poem a prayer
if not a Wall Street ticker tape
our fear spelled out in numbers
The Day I Married New Orleans
It was an unorthodox ceremony to be sure, peculiar and solemn as the girl I was then. I loved New Orleans the way you love a person: passionately, even obsessively. I wanted to gather New Orleans into my arms and kiss her.
“Sandra Stringer, 1930 – 2017” or, the wretched life of an old sourpuss
Some people go to their graves angry, unhappy, and utterly closed off to all possible goodness in their lives.
