A Haunting Story of Nature
The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and save the day.
Nature and Nurture
My apartment fire escape overlooks a corner portion of the UCSF Parnassus campus. The cluster of hospital buildings stands at...
2020 Hindsight
[Part 2 of a photo series on life after 2020.] Right before the pandemic began, a Ferris wheel was built...
Fallen
[Part 1 of a photo series on life after 2020.] It seems that 2020 refuses to recede into the past.
Bus Stop 4
walking against the grain hyacinth coat hedged over the knee, two legs stumble forward fighting tension. perhaps it is your...
Buddha's Sidewalk
Kaleidoscopic luminosity, urban serenity, and vivid imagery –– these are the essential qualities exuded by this meta-illustrative, and regenerative, portrayal...
Second Day
January 13, 2021 One of these days I'll turn the right way when I exit the stairwell. I'll confidently walk...
Functional Depressive
How are you? I Inhale. And I’m quickly reminded that this was first real breath I’ve taken all day How...
elpis
fleetingly she glimpsed by --- a backyard hummingbird fluttering, feeding her hatchlings: spiny, naked little things, blind and squirmy, perilously...
On the Road with Bashō: Exploring Art with a Haiku Virtuoso and Literarily Immortal Novelist, Part One
Without question, Dany Laferrière’s new novel, Sur la route avec Bashō, French for “On the road with Bashō,” constitutes a...