420: I had to go all the way back

memory messes me up I had to go back to the days in which brothers teased sister had to hold hand come along neighborhood boys rode furiously past carelessly taunting now I know simply full of wonder mystery unsolved frustrated to not know so much I had to go back for...

419: notes upon the sidewalk

we wrote them in chalk back in the day white only always broken a nub clutched in nubby fingers lines we called words in and amongst the hop scotch double dutch four square yesterday still there isn’t vision an amazing thing awe-full truly I mean awe filled...

418: looking for a let

to let: allow give permission take for rent at the exact center of my life a watershed of before spilling like a wedding dress train of royalty or a red carpet walked upon forward the unknown equally spilled unforeseeable anticipation not unlike birth though it was...

417: what got me here won’t get me there

colors canvas paper brush the long sweep of hog-bristle touched with bits of bitumen delight awe wonder disbelief leading a tangled course across blank page until order falls away begins again starts anew pen ink paper hope tied up in years experience nestled...

416: Marta made it

the extra space up the space where punctuation taught in grammar school grandmother rapped knuckles to comply an extra space where once a comma a period perhaps or maybe a semicolon if you were brave would sit I myself left nothing no period none of that comma and...