Nonfiction
Spring 2009
The Duct-taped Side of the Moon
Rip Van Winkle and the Separation (with a Primer of Twenty-six Parenthetical Notes on the Sacred) … apparently the lawless plunderers of the orchard and the corn field, are, in […]
Fiction
Winter 1995
Creep, Crop, Cry, Cream
The trees are rattling. The immediate is merely an emblem of the past, the present is memory’s diary. Do you remember? I remember the leaves. His job, Gramma said, was […]
Fiction
Spring 1983
Starlings, Mute Swans, a Goose, an Impossible Angel, Evening Grosbeaks, an Ostrich, Some Ducks, and a Sparrow
A woman wearing a bib apron and carrying a man’s humped lunch bucket walked past the window and Clay mistook her for an angel. She had a heavy step for […]
Fiction
Summer 1982
Margaret of the Imperfections
Margaret favored her left foot as she walked up the hill toward her house, which from some angles looked about to collapse into accordion pleats down the hill and into […]
Fiction
Autumn 1980
Turning
Three elderly ladies, elegantly turned with jewels on their elongated necks, helped one another to hobble from the taxi to the walk. They came toward the house, their white curled […]
Fiction
Spring 1980
Hamlet’s Planets: Parable 2:b
HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. — Act 11, Scene […]