He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the