Cardinal
She gently placed the dying cardinal, wrapped in a soft rag, in the empty cat food box to take it outside. To end its suffering with the rat trap leftover …
Again
And again. Three steps back. A gain and a gain. Back again three steps. A gain again, a gain. I can only hope a gain.
And One Day Our Clocks Will Rise Up Against Us
How should we use our time together today? the analyst asks at the beginning of each session. The men who make the clocks are the men who keep the time… …
Hard Boiled Eggs Or Scrambled?
Hard boiled or scrambled? the waitress repeats. I don’t know, he says. I just don’t know… The waitress smacks her gum. I can almost see her rolling her eyes. I …
Where In The World Is Susan?
Where in there is Susan? the brain surgeon found himself wondering, looking into her open cranium. This was the first procedure scheduled since his return from a conference in Honolulu …
Mason Mill Park: The Ruins of America
ONE. You used to have cross over railroad tracks to get here. Now, there’s town houses where the road used to end abruptly into mud and gravel. A bike path …
Wine, Memory, Steele
I’m more of a beer guy, or bourbon or Irish Whiskey. But wine has a holiness to it. Each bottle, especially with a good wine, seems its own reincarnated spirit. …
Closing Arguments: Something There Is That Doesn’t Love A Wall…
*See Endnotes for typography key/citations* Exhibit A. There is no Great Wall of China. The name stands for a system of walls, erected over 2000 years by almost every dynasty …
The Poet: Robert Desnos
Living men, have no fear of me, I am dead./ Nothing is left of my spirit or my body. -Epitaph, Robert Desnos While I’m gone, keep flowers around all the …
The Desert Island List
2. Walt Whitman – 1st Edition – Leaves of Grass – The Sleepers, To Think Of Time, Song of Myself in their original forms. Co-opting Emerson’s ideas and the rhythmic …