They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

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.

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

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...