Another fall
byFor several weeks now I have had the sense of something about to come to an end–that old September feeling, left over from school…
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…
Location: Godfrey, Illinois
Even in a country you know by heart its hard to go the same way twice the life of the going changes. The chances…
The wind is a crowd erupting, screaming praise for the home team. Tattered leaves and broken sticks, debris from a long season, fly haphazard…
The true threat to the world today comes from the mad ambitions of states and capitalists bent on destroying non-modern cultures. It is the…
For 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…
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches…
Snow-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….
Ma hummed softly to herself while the iron smoothed all the wrinkles out of the little dresses. All around them, to the very edge…
At the first signs of decline, I saw the illusion I’d buried in the depths of my subconscious float to the surface: I had…