Dizziness diagnosis

He feared brain blood clots
but it’s labyrinthitis.
He’ll live after all.

Dizzy

Why his head spins he
doesn’t know. Vertigo’s made
the world hell’s fun house.

Hope

Dark fear crackling at
the edges, the heart beats on,
pulsing core of light.

Welcome 2013

If you suffer from
triskaidekaphobia,
good luck. You’ll need it.

Fiscal cliff

Cost to average
household: Five thousand. Voting
the bums out: Priceless.

 

College acceptance letters

Envelope size, thick
or thin. We look for clues, don’t
like to be surprised .

College midterms

She calls, panicked, freaked.
Can’t breathe, can’t focus, can’t write.
I soothe, long distance.

Last day of 16

Some days she doesn’t
fit into her skin, too young
to be old this soon.

Hoarders on A&E

What we hold onto
owns us drowns us sedates us
slow death by shopping.

Out of wedlock

for S.

Without a ring she’s
uncertain, the baby no
guarantee he’ll stay.