Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

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.

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d