Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

I'm happy to report that a new edition of Suitcase Charlie has come out, and it's now being published by Kasva Press, one of the...

My experience with Emily Dickinson isn’t like other people’s in this series  of essays by poets writing about how they discovered Dicki...

Autumn Memories The best part of deer hunting was of course the long night of drinking that always followed. Out in a cold november nigh...

Is Old Age a Gift? I got a message from a friend Barbara Pauls with a post that tried to make the case that old age is a gift. Is it? ...

A Story My Mother Heard In the Slave Labor Camp They took me from my children, three little ones. They said the children would be u...

Eye Contact with the Dead Don’t make eye contact with the dead in their coffins. They’ve suffered long enough, walked too long upon t...

Dead Deer in the Backyard I found a deer in the backyard today.  It was dead. I had gone out to mow the back terrace, a section of the y...