Lighting Candles
Perhaps it’s just January, tin cup held out to the coming of sugar maple and wheat, that draws me to this bowl of light. In my forty-fifth year I’m lighting candles: ivory spires on the mantel, [...]
Baseball Man
Drafted, signed, paid, groomed, called up, sent down, called up, sent down, reassigned, traded, traded, traded, released, re-signed, a dozen towns, leagues, a dozen years, a whirl of county [...]
Bodily Harm
When Libby’s twenty-pound boa struck at the rat, I dropped my tea on her snowy carpet. Long as a squirrel, the white rat had been frozen. Libby’s husband reheated it in the microwave (where I had [...]
The Blessings of the Moon
The Moon, who is caprice itself, looked through the window while you were sleeping in your crib and she said to herself, “This child pleases me.” And she descended – softly – her staircase of [...]
