Undercurrent
I wish I could love you the way I love you in my mind I wish I could tell you the parts of you that are difficult to understand I wish I could accept that I deserve a love of my life I wish I wouldn’t be scared that it might not be you
Cancel the Moon
Sometimes we went to bed without the shutters drawn and a kitchen light on we had intended to switch off. And it always amazed me how easily we went against the safety of our nightly routine and the way things ought to be done. We’d usually awake late into the night, but nowhere near the …
I Wish I Could
I wish I could slam one more door at you If it meant you’d come back to me Propose one more drunk night eloped with your words And take in your greedy touch once again in my drunken haste All to make sure I had one more time to explain to you That I miss …
How to Throw out a Garbage Can
So how do we get rid of it? What’s wrong with it again? The hole. It’s the hole. Can’t we patch it? No, we can’t patch it. Maybe cover it. We could cover it. A little wood on the bottom or something. It’s not just the hole. It’s the wheels. The wheels? The wheel. It’s …
Criteria for Love
When in love, they ask about the moments of your day. You never asked. They want to spend the day through the night with you. My day revolved around how useful and available I was for your needs. They never grow tired of wanting to know more about you. You never asked questions, but you …
The History of Dogs as Pets
It was originally believed the first domesticated wolves appeared around 15,000 years ago in the Middle East. New evidence, however, suggests it was much earlier than that. Swedish geneticist Pontus Skoglund published a study last year in the journal Current Biology, describing his findings of a 35,000-year-old Siberian wolf bone. He concluded that canine domestication may …
To Grandmother’s House, We Go
“You gotta put holes in the top. Sara had killed one of ‘em like that. Dad said it died in the jar because it had no air to breathe. Bugs breathe too, you know, Grandma? I don’t know what they eat so you gotta let them out in the morning, but not too early or …
Pardon Me
“You, you going to stay in that bed all day?” “Just trying to get lucky.” “Oh,” he finally stammered. His face was flushed but his eyes could not leave her face. No one was supposed to be in that room. He was just supposed to put on new sheets and take out the trash like …