Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock