To Pray or not to pray or when to pray ( Read more... )

In a time when heroines were rare ( Read more... )

Once there was a little kid that stopped hoping ( Read more... )

Children who die, but not from wounds ( Read more... )

 
He asked me if I wanted thumbs.
"No." I said. "I don't want any thumbs."
"Behold, I will take back thy thumbs,
but what wilt thou do without thumbs
to help thee?"

"I'll be perfect. I will do work
I'm created to do. No other work
I am unfit for will be my work
as I will be unable to work
for gain's sake."

I felt aloft in fine powder
and saw my thumbs decay
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I lived twelve years in a bottle 
Before rehab rubbed me out, 
I was advised by counsel, “take your time to heal,” 
Suffering spares a ripening will-- 
beyond a reasonable doubt; I kept my pledge:

“I’m an alcoholic,” still. My sworn confession 
appeared to face fact and change opinion, even 
Appealing to cockroaches on the prowl. I took 8
years to reform ( Read more... )

The mattress had such a distinctive
odor to it I felt half-dog when I laid
down. The smell of souring men soiled
Through the weathered wool. In Montana 
I located a Millionaire who needed men like me
To drive his tractors for a living, I was tender
and country-fried in that appalling heat, especially 
during summers when the wind was drier than
A coconut ( Read more... )

They left her in the shadow of a transient young oak ( Read more... )

Slam. Unimpressed with its sound, she banged the door again ( Read more... )

In Ireland we will meet ( Read more... )