Reluctant Citizens, Zyzzyva (#103) and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016
It occurs to me—though I’m not sure I’m comforted by the thought—that we are creating our democracy, even as we inherit it.

Tie Your Own Rope, Full Stop
But this album, Smash — I spent years turning the radio dial when one of its songs came on. I could never escape it.

Fading, Lost Magazine
Still you are fading, falling, drowning out of sight.

San Francisco, California, Orion Magazine 
I live inside the fog that forms from time to time

Fog, Lost Magazine
"I used to know," I say.

Oil Slick, 48 Hour Magazine (Longshot Magazine)
The battlefield is not just the sub-sea and the sea, the beaches and the marshes.

The Place Itself, Adventure Journal
We’re not here seeking risk; we’ve come seeking the place itself.

Half-Blind Valley, High Country News
Then we followed the tributary to see where it would lead.