After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

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

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

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