SD FultonJun 301 min readWinterfaceYes, Your Honor, it’s true I’ve allowed age to knead my face, leave crinkle-fans beside each eye carve parentheses around my lips, sprout...
SD FultonApr 31 min readWINGED THINGS (4 of 4) Then, there are things dead Reborn with butterfly wings Here, now springs to life
SD FultonFeb 281 min readWINGED THINGS (3 of 4) old memories dance search the dark for holy light sway to whispered songs
SD FultonFeb 81 min readWINGED THINGS (2 of 4)Trade arms for spring wings Paint on butterfly kisses Howl a new song
SD FultonJan 291 min readWINGED THINGS (1 of 4)Unhatched raven’s egg Unborn feathered face singing Inside a shell world
SD FultonJan 11 min readHello? “Hi Grandma. It’s Anna. I dialed you all by myself.” We chat about education (Kindergarten stinks), literature (There’s this penguin...
SD FultonDec 5, 20231 min readA Letter GradeB is bad for a boy carrying eight years of straight A’s and his mother’s high expectations on skinny Freshman shoulders. He drips sweat...
SD FultonNov 16, 20231 min readEmpty Arms and RebornsNo one warned me the weight of a newborn leaves a bittersweet ache behind. Which might be why some mourning moms buy reborn babies, dolls...
SD FultonNov 9, 20231 min readWhat Else?It’s easy, said the Sisters of St. John’s in 1968: Obey, don’t question. Follow your conscience: Right feels right. Wrong feels wrong....
SD FultonNov 2, 20231 min readMisunderstandingHallelujah It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift —Leonard Cohen Had we met when I was still a...
SD FultonNov 2, 20231 min readGreetings from Jekyll Island Today I mailed a postcard backwards across 54 years to the knobby kneed 11-year-old I was in 1966: Greetings from Jekyll Island On back,...