Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job