Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

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

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

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 can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…