Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...