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First mobile post

And under the covers, at that! Think of the magic we'll find mobilized...
Green Shutters

Painting the green today, the luxuriance of hemlock, pine – oh, the dying pine below, from that harsh lightning of August. Paint...
we saw Batman

It was ‘eighty-nine, and you were six. Your brother and sister, off at friends’. You couldn’t, ever really. Your oxygen stayed th...
Marigolds

In summer at Weyer’s Cave, my grandmother’s garden sifted through sunbeams in a green, fenced square beneath the screened-in porch ...
Bent Mountain

Oheka. Watch them, ‘round they go. I straighten my legs and lean back for the ride. ...
28 May

He took my brother flying on Piedmont from the Weyers Cave airport. It was his father's farm before, where he and they ...
A Wee Trip to the UK
A Horse Limerick

There once was a big horse named Pleasure who decided she didn’t care for her rug so against the fence and the pole and the barn s...
The Waiting Room

Women wait and watch as the afternoon begins. At the desk, a couple signs in. She is slight and wears a plaid wool coat; he is t...