The Tip of Your Tongue Anomic aphasia is characterized by the inability to remember the appropriate word to identify an object, a...

White Torture Unlike an electrocutor trap that instantly kills the incandescent bulb welcomes with its warm light and the bedazzled...

Love is quick-crashing meteorites. We measure with all the wrong tools. I opened a book; a stream of birds flew out. Love is that...

* Shielding your lips this stone knows all about winds living in caves, began as dust then kept in place neither mornings or kisses...

Orbits We pedal our three-wheelers in concentric circles on home lawns and parents applaud. We grow strong calves, balance and speed, and...

Kevin returns from his deployment by walking out of the fields wearing his favorite flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up — he strolls...

Husbandry: The Old Widower at the Corner House The thing, perhaps, is to plant flowers and not be afraid His days with his wife fade...

The Serenade A cow lies on her side, panting and heaving. Her tongue slides out uncomfortably. She wheezes. It won’t be long now. It is a...

A LOYAL MENTEE THANKS HIS 3 MENTORS Life is short. The craft so long to learn. Chaucer Who taught him how to live— the 2 Henrys— Miller...

Boulder Colorado, June Aubade A doe and two fawns, still spotted, amble into the back yard, browse flower beds, pass over portulaca,...

“hungry ghost the night” --Gregory Orr, from “After the Guest” The day departs quiet as hell, the briefest last moments of light. I have...

ABE LINCOLN NEVER MADE IT TO THE NBA Honestly, 6’4” Abe would have been a superstar center in Dale, Indiana, which is what that little...

Fire Nocturne Fire as the eyes of a dark crow that sits ...

Walking and there at my feet a dead bird newly fallen poised on its belly, its beak stuck into the grass as though this unblemished bird...

he wakes when the sun gets in his face like an animal looking for attention. 8am and the day is baking. on the floor bottles settle like...

David Cameron Sings the Brexit It’s envy of the past that does us in. High school promise unfulfilled: most likely to succeed, or sing,...

I like to start my day with a hot cup of coffee I pound down the coffee First thing I do every day as the dawning sun Lights up my...

WANDAWOOWOO LOUD I’ve trained my face to look calm, especially when fraught. My last lover said I’m peaceful. It’s funny how people can...

My father acceded to death after certain miscalculations. He received inferior instruction in an earlier mathematics, the same as all of...

The rain, at first, sounds like there’s someone tapping at the window, but the only one out there wanting in is my half of a reflection...