Beginner genie

Beginner genie

This is where you make your wishes after all, three sheets to the wind, thumb rub­bing up the brown glassy con­dens­a­tion, wistful, dream­ing of Kris­to­bal or Mira­bella or Carlos, in your bars and your nightclubs, sweat and grind, the neck of the bottle...
Time and love and magic on our side

Time and love and magic on our side

We may not win the battle, she says. And while there’s always fear, some­where down in the heart-sore depths of watch­ing our chil­dren grow, there’s always fear that things can change in an eyeblink, that the wing-free light­ness of the trilling dan­cers of...
Place

Place

There used to be water in Cali­for­nia; snow­melt rush­ing through rav­ines to coalesce laugh­ingly as lakes and lagoons and other summer indul­gences. That was long away and far ago, in some strange before time when the land wasn’t riven with cracks and the heat had...
The ravine

The ravine

Step off. Or not. It’s one of those decisions that hovers at your peri­pheral vision — are you ready? Wings unfurled at your back, that sen­sa­tion of almost-moist­ness linger­ing — will they hold? There’s a time limit… go too early and you plum­met to the bottom...