K L Johnson
Bio
K L Johnson is a writer based in Haiku, Maui. Her career has taken her from organic hemp farms in Ireland to classical concert halls in China, and everywhere in between. She supports the lavish upkeep of an 8-year-old hound.
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Home is a hole I dug myself.
Synapses pinging like GPS: Lawrence, NY, where the cousins sit Shiva. Ping. Homer, Alaska, cousins praising Jesus for a fishing boat, unsunk. Ping. West Virginia, where a long dry season ends with thunder and coyotes. Ping. Florida. Dad, in brown dress shoes, stepping over a lizard on his way to work. Ping. My mom swims laps in Connecticut while my brother tests the reverb in Nashville and, in Baltimore, another cousin has a beer.
By K L Johnson4 years ago in Poets
The Water Taxi Driver
She tried to avoid the area south of Houston because a lot of buildings had fallen there and squatters had taken over the wreckage. Instead, she preferred the waterways around Central Park, where she knew every obstacle as well as the lines on her own face. Plus, she liked to park her skiff near the hotel on the southeast corner and eat lunch at the diner inside. Having read all the Eloise books as a child, it was easy to imagine a time when the place had been glittering and vibrant, back before brackish water had flooded the lobby.
By K L Johnson5 years ago in Fiction
