We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
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…
My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat