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

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

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 ...

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where