The Word

The first seated takes the chance he’ll be stood up. She’s getting on with the hope she may get off. One and one make one in ...

That feeling that you get, when your stomach's about to drop, do you know which feeling I'm talking about? the one that makes life p...

There is less difficulty—indeed, no logical difficulty at all—in imagining two portions of the universe, say two galaxies, in which ti...

Summer is all a green air— From the brilliant lawn, sopranos Through murmuring hedges Accompanied by some poplars; In fields of wheat, surpr...

Six humans trapped by happenstance In dark and bitter cold Each possessed a stick of wood-- Or so the story's told. Their dying fire in ...

Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself get up, write ...

I learned from my mother how to love the living, to have plenty of vases on hand in case you have to rush to the hospital wit...