An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew