She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold