...from the collection:

“Bad Man Love Stories”

     I. Surely This Is how a good love is best made broke:
     “You don’t do some stupid thing I want,” he says, “and I want to rain down on the world like God in His baddest pickup. He comes down from the mountains and He brings His mouth.”
     “Oh?” she asks ...

"Another Acceptance"

     Sometimes I can’t remember if I’m supposed to like to dance. This is not to say that I don’t know, or that I can’t know, or couldn’t say, but only that I can’t be sure when I did and when I didn’t, and really, what are you asking anyways? ...

"...this piece [is] a warning, a reminder that we’re closest to those we can’t save, whom we eventually, finally, have to let go, even when we’re not programmed to."
     Managing Editor Tim Johnson, Passages North