Serpent Strike
My gloved hand grasps the prickly weedsAnchored in the garden's rocky Ozark dirt.Emerging feathered carrot sprouts overrunwith branching stalks of leaves...
That Summer of Last Youth
Your brother accidentally drownedwhile everyone else was looking awayand then your father took that diveinto the lonely grain elevator anda few days later...
Country Roads
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Red Sky at Dawn
Several things occurred suddenly and simultaneously as the elderly lady quickly regained consciousness. Firstly, she was immediately aware the plane was...
A Horse Without a Rider
My Uncle Bebe galloped out of Berlad between bullets and flames,chased by dogs and Cossack whips.In blood-swollen eyes he flew over the moon of the rugged...
Mock Wedding
Corporal Jamie Sorenson, fast asleep in his childhood bedroom, finds himself leaping to his feet, and for a half second he’s back in Kurdistan reaching for...
Unknown Pastor in Bentonville, 2016
He spoke from another table, loud enough so allCould hear, of years in churches, especiallyThe Eighties when thousands died of AIDS andHe refused response...
Gun Control
300 million gunsWhich one will he choose?Semi or full automaticRegardless, you lose.Will gun control save youFrom his disease?With a handful of dollarsHe can...
The Luck of the Child
Last night, my son set a leprechaun trap,a cardboard box held up on one sideby a drumstick, the knobby wooden torsoof the stick ready to pull the box over a...
Mastermind of Manhattan
Back in 2013….It was early March and New Yorkers were slogging through the snowy streets of Manhattan after concluding another day of work. A cold Nor’easter...
Close
We were as closeas any two could beI thought that was clearfor everyone to seeWe were as closeas any two could beI would have let hertake a bullet for me
Dove, Virgin, and Peace - St. James Church
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Street Preacher in Rogers, 2016
Bible in hand, voice cracked, Gary preaches toCars with windows rolled up, assuming GodWith him, God demands this of him, God hearsHis words, even through a...
Another Day
You saw methrough anotherdayI poured waterthrough your eyestheyglistenedIn the smogof my mindyou gazedhopeSleepdid not lure youeyes openyou hung on...
Heart to Heart
My mother’s death came as no surprise during the bleak early morning hours of January 5th, 2005. Having reached eighty-five years and tiring of her...
All The Stuff
You can have that for fifteen centsan old Dennis the Menace dollAnd that for fifty centsa chemistry setAnd thirty centsthe board game ClueJust take thesethe...
Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
Snakes don’t always bite,they run away from you.American flags are in tatters,drooping in autumnal winds.Birds have stopped singing,and huddle in oil-soaked...
Shades of the Past
Old bones and ashes buried below tilted crosses and broken head stones. The smell of wet pine and decay lingered in the air after an early morning autumn...
What? No headlights?
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The Creative
process explodes, evoking aweand rapt attention from those in orbitdrifting, too distant to be felled by themagnitude of the unfiltered event.Affected...