Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level