Another fall
For several weeks now I have had the sense of something about to come to an end–that old September feeling, left over from school…
Read MoreFor several weeks now I have had the sense of something about to come to an end–that old September feeling, left over from school…
Read MoreLocation: Godfrey, Illinois
Read MoreEven in a country you know by heart its hard to go the same way twice the life of the going changes. The chances…
Read MoreThe wind is a crowd erupting, screaming praise for the home team. Tattered leaves and broken sticks, debris from a long season, fly haphazard…
Read MoreThe true threat to the world today comes from the mad ambitions of states and capitalists bent on destroying non-modern cultures. It is the…
Read MoreFor several years, my 90-year-old mother has dreaded the approach of winter. She lives in wool sweaters, pockets stuffed with tissues. She wraps in…
Read MoreYou expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches…
Read MoreSnow-fog hides houses on the opposite shore. Faith insists they’re still there. * A perfect silence in the winter field—the sound of snow alighting….
Read MoreMa hummed softly to herself while the iron smoothed all the wrinkles out of the little dresses. All around them, to the very edge…
Read MoreAt the first signs of decline, I saw the illusion I’d buried in the depths of my subconscious float to the surface: I had…
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