Formless, I drift on a caravan of memories. Timeless, I wait for the present to take form. Shadowed shapes surround me. Drawn to the...

The bright shining light of a morning sun falls upon her shoulders. She coaxes greens and dandelion from the springtime garden. The...

Sissy stands in ankle-high grass, her back to the hill, her arms raised regally above her chestnut hair. Down-field, by the creek, her...

"How long will she be here?" my dad asks, holding his fork midair, as though he can not take the bite until he hears the answer. I wait...

The Norfolk and Western Railroad crosses the Big Sandy River on long black pilings, joining the eastern hills of Kentucky with the green...

Mary Harvey watches the pigeons outmanuever oneanother for crumbs. She looks beyond them to the evening traffic, Pulls a heavy coat...

A tangle of hair floats across the room. I watch it touch the floor ever so softly. I remember when my mother's hair was everywhere. He,...

I've often wondered what it is about me that instantly alerts all dogs that I'm afraid of them. I grew up in a rural area where dogs...

The bottle is empty. Poised above his lips the last few drops run down his chin, his neck. Wiping his mouth on his shirt tail, he traces...

What a good dog! A Plott Hound Brindle coated, chocolate eyed, Keen tracker and hunter. Thrown away... Thrown into a garbage can. Crying...

Our train rolls through a station, stopping briefly at a downtown crossing. Girls stand on the corner, pretending not to notice the boys....

We are poor. Appalachian poor. Home is creeks, hollows, hills, A dirt-hard road, puddles with the rain. Are we happy? Red rover, red...

My brother shot my father, The BB gun pressed right against his skin. Against his left shoulder. My father, wrestling my mother to the...

We held hands by a gray-green sea skipping through warm tidal pools tiptoeing in the foam searching for the moon snail on a shell covered...

An edgy knock, not unexpected, a notice nailed to a weathered door. An exodus of bed and boxspring scores the worn linoleum floor. Old...

I saved the whales, the seals, the swans. I fought for right of Choice. You were so close, so quiet, now I long to hear your Voice.

A faint light spills beneath your door, A sonata fills the air, Your soft eyes: contemplative, numbed fingers touch the chair. Truth was...

Lapping waves, slapping waves rain drops and salt spray. Sea gulls, ship hulls Whipping sail lazy day. Dipping oars dripping oars...

Willowy runner poised at the line. Resolute eyes intent on the gun. Anxious feet ready to run. Wild chestnut hair flies in the sun....

I am upstairs sleeping My father is downstairs dying. He lies in a hospice bed in the living room of that Beautiful old house. I cared...