Follow Your Roots,
2020
Dominican University of California
Falling,
2020
Dominican University of California
Curls,
2020
Dominican University of California
Breathe In; Breathe Out,
2020
Dominican University of California
Bones,
2020
Dominican University of California
Blue Gaps,
2020
Dominican University of California
At Bay,
2020
Dominican University of California
(M)Other Tongue,
2020
Dominican University of California
You Would Do Anything,
2020
Dominican University of California
You Would Do Anything, Kevin Coates
The Tuxedo Archives
You are driving on the interstate, and your daughter says, “Look, Mommy! A polar bear!”
You are not so far gone that you think it really can be a polar bear, but you can not in that split second think of much else that it could be.
“A polar bear?” you say, stalling.
“Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear?” she says.
You remember vaguely that those are the lines of a book you read to her at night. You don’t know what the polar bear hears. What do polar bears hear? You imagine white noise, winds filled with …
Wandering Legacy,
2020
Dominican University of California
Time Spent Lost,
2020
Dominican University of California
There It Goes Again,
2020
Dominican University of California
The Passion Of The Storm,
2020
Dominican University of California
The Machine Of Mankind,
2020
Dominican University of California
The Bone Train,
2020
Dominican University of California
The Bone Train, Pamela Livingston
The Tuxedo Archives
Standing inside the shadow of the dying gum tree, Gadje counted the curses. There must be one for every misshapen god Ashtong’s coffins had offended and the train of coffins was long. Very long.
Brittle bone prayers swayed, clicking in the crisp breeze that broke through the branches of gum forest everywhere but where Gadje stood. He only had to toss some bone dust into the wind and mumble his request to make the wind god understand, they had worked around each other for many years. Crushing the shards of broken prayers in his palm, Gadje refilled the stiff gator …
So Modernism,
2020
Dominican University of California
Slippery,
2020
Dominican University of California
Seven Taverns To The Schoolhouse,
2020
Dominican University of California
Seven Taverns To The Schoolhouse, Ellen Six
The Tuxedo Archives
The day that I was born my parents looked at me and said, “You will go to college,” a noble ambition to fulfill when you are only two hours old. To both of my parents, who had emigrated from Lithuania, education was the magic key that would free me from the life that they had to live.
Mother had received only three years of schooling. She was third daughter in a family that would have twelve children; six would live and six would die. She learned to read and write but that was enough for a girl who was needed …
Pop!,
2020
Dominican University of California
Pieces Of My Heart,
2020
Dominican University of California
