Baby clothes
With the same gentleness that she would handle an infant, she folded the baby clothes and set them on the shelf. She was kneeling in[…]
Barren field
Stripped clean from its crop, the field lies flooded and completely bare to torrential rains. The downpour started sometime in the early hours and has[…]
A prayer released
From my lips the prayer is released.I watch it go up on something like angel wingsriding wherever the wind takes it,but always climbing,angling,rising through a[…]
Safe beneath my tree
Lying on my backon the picnic tablein my grandparents’ backyardI used to sing to the birdsin the high branchesof the catalpa treeaboveMy grandparents called it[…]
Poor penmanship
Better than a padlockor security alarmis the garbled handwritingwith which I keep my journals.Printed in faint pencil lead,the words gofrom margin to margin,(crossover margins)to the[…]
On the way somewhere
Ahead, a car flinches as its brake lights slam red.From nowhere, a hawk comes gliding across the country highway.First, the two northbound lanes.Then, the median[…]
Drive down to Wichita
On the drive down to Wichita:The last dead days of February beginning to blossom.Rolling prairie and mounded hills ready to green.The surviving winter birds and[…]
Found upon a hike
On a hike this afternoon, I came across this man standing alone on the prairie, painting a line of trees. I found it odd because[…]
The Wisest Man in the City
The wisest man in the citycarries his belongings in a trash bagand wears a Rasta tam. He has the world solved.Corruption, corporate slavery,racism: He knows[…]