Grand Rapids, Michigan by Robin Crane

I am at a mental hospital

in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I had never been to this city before.

My room is right next to

the bay of telephones.

I feel sad hearing

so many patients start

conversations with their

friends or family and then

so soon say,

"Oh, you have to go?

Well...goodbye."

Nostalgia Haiku Pee Wee’s Playhouse song Her smell returns and her laugh We’d watched since show one

IN keeping with the more than usual focus on my mom, who passed away almost a year ago now, here is a book she made me for my 14th birthday.

sweetheart redux