Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

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...

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

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

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

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

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 ...

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up