We are still here and still kicking, albeit a bit more feebly than before. But, here's to a new year Read more
Uncle Fred had taken a turn for the worse. That's how Claudette put it when she summoned those few of Read more
Remove me from this circle, away from this blurred screen The sounds of slurred promises and caricatured lives Read more
“Moe!” Aubrey shouted. “Mira! Mira!” “What?” I was in the fourth hall building working my way slowly Read more
Perryopolis, Pennsylvania It’s burn day where I’m fromand the smoke hangs like draperyover the town that hasn’t produceda noteworthy personin Read more
I think I look like a painting that’s beenplastered over maybe silver maybegold a sort of shimmering tonewrapped in plastic Read more
"Anyone later looking at the photographs would not think other than that she was happy. There were several variations: her Read more
A field of sunflowers in bloom year roundsea of yellow beneath a clear blue skyGentle swells glistened over fertile groundPeacefulness Read more
A scuff mark. He noticed it on the inside of his right shoe. He had dressed reflexively without putting on Read more
I measure us in momentsand boxes left unpacked 24 reasons waitingonly 18 spaces left One cup shortabandoned endingsand stories gone Read more
lock up your horses and get your guns Batch Baxter's back again!ridin' in the moonlight like a devil in the Read more
The long, Lenten months of March and Aprilare gray and brown in Anchorage, Alaska,offering scant promise of new life.Bare branches Read more
Patty, Patty, Patty. When I was seven, all I could think of was Patty. Kissing Patty McCalla. Patty was the Read more
Bright in the pre-dawn sky, justto the right of the Geddes’s tall oakas I bend for the morning paper—and in Read more
~ The Storm ~ Darkness lay over the surface of the desert, and the wind and the rain were rushing Read more
Someone Else Chopin had known Maria as a child;Now she was a black-eyed beauty who paintedAnd played piano; they were Read more
I had never driven a Ford Galaxie 500 in my life. It came with 330 horsepower and a 390 cubic Read more
She said since it worked for Jenny and Forrest, that she thought if we prayed hard enough we could turn Read more
I'm swapping metaphors with the Rockies -high, grounded, goals, journey.And sometimes underground rivers -blind fish, depths, darkness, core.Then I tramp Read more
Do not let the small blessings fade awayTake heed and enjoy, for each is fleetingTo be savored as the sun Read more
The kids shuffle along the ice with their hockey sticks, banging into each other and falling. “Move your legs! Move Read more
it was because newly buriedin a thawing spring graveshe had hidden keys withinher thin white shroud andnow lay, as she’d Read more