The War
A cock. A non-castrated capon. A cockerel. A reptilian, evil bastard. His siren call would come before sunrise, echoing up the mountainside and back down again. And rush in, with piercing...
View ArticleWe might lose this child
The team knows and I know that we are running out of time. The anesthesiologist looks up at me and I see the fear in his eyes. . . We might lose this child. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is like...
View ArticleEdward Hopper. Third Grade Report Card.
This image was drawn on the back of Edward Hopper’s third grade report card dated October 23, 1891, when Hopper was nine years old. Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Little Boy Looking at the Sea, n.d., ink...
View ArticleIt’s been a long day
I remembered the fearless, confident boy I used to be back then…I didn’t miss him. I only, sometimes, missed the high spirits that often used to seize me when I was ten. Would there ever be an event...
View ArticleMiracle. All of it.
Some transfer of significance has occurred: I feel it, feel the air move, feel time begin to pour down a new tributary. The world adjusts itself. The doctors hold the baby up over the screen so that I...
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