Sublime

lots of blonds, a banana when it is first peeled and

then a castaway in the wide ocean of possibility,

only the art was visible, hovering in squares of golden light in the black room.

nisei

Wherever her family went, she became the node that connected all wandering Americans worth knowing.

inconvenient yearning.

Not one person they met addressed Sarah or asked where he was taking her.

Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.

Life was expensive anywhere you were.