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by Ray A. Young Bear Immediately after the two brothers entered The Seafood Shoppe with their wide-eyed wives and extra-brown complexioned stepchildre...
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The Author to Her Book
2023-12-06by Anne Bradstreet Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till snatched from thence by friends, less w...
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The Baite
2023-12-06by John Donne Come live with mee, and bee my love, And wee will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and christall brookes, With silken lines, an...
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The Basic Con
2023-12-06by Lew Welch Those who can‘t find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it, too....
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The Bean Eaters
2023-12-06by Gwendolyn Brooks They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware....
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From "One A.M."
2023-12-06by David Young You'll show that toad-eater who wrote Night Thoughts what's happened in two centuries or so. You'll make your yard the spir...
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The Bear at the Dump
2023-12-06by William Matthews Amidst the too much that we buy and throw away and the far too much we wrap it in, the bear found a few items of special interest&...
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The Bistro Styx
2023-12-06by Rita Dove She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, silvery cape billowing dr...
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From "Red Foxes"
2023-12-06by Robert McDowell When she was younger Nessa shot a bird. She was playing Annie Oakley. Her friend Ramon Had handed her his Christmas BB gun. She rai...
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The Black Bass
2023-12-06by David Dodd Lee My hand became my father's hand that day, for a second or two, as I lifted the fish, and I could feel his loneliness, my father&...