Thursday, May 31, 2007

TO BUSH

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by Michael Graves It is not dream that troubles you, the self assured. At night, you do not stand After difficult...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

LAURA BUSH DREAMS

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by Mary Ann Mayer Laura's Pretty Dream: The cool air dark with roses; restive, the mothers’ brow; the fields festive, bombed to Adam. M...
Monday, May 28, 2007

INTELLIGENT DESIGNER

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by Mary A. Turzillo The Creation Museum, a project of the socially conservative religious organization Answers in Genesis, mocks evolutionar...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

RECRUIT

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by Paul Nelson Of last spring's lambs, at ease by the shed, the brown ram will not go in for frost-soft apples, not for grain, and it...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

SMALL THINGS

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by Mike McCulley A tiny moth flutters in a spiral between my chair and the bookcase, disturbed into the early light, the flutter hunts out a...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

MAY 15, 2007

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by Jill Lange I. Today, Carol stopped by to tell me Jerry Falwell died. Carol is middle aged, a competent lawyer. She tells good jokes. I wa...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

CLEAN

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by Judy Kronenfeld Crime Scene Cleaners, Inc. Homicide Suicide Accidental death --Truck seen on the freeway. Let them come like priests in ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

GALILEE

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by Michelle Bitting for Dorianne She speaks of blackberries, sweet multitudes of them outside the house, stepping through the door to be swa...
Monday, May 21, 2007

NYC TICKET SAYS MAN RAN LIGHT IN ROWBOAT

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by Rochelle Ratner Leave it to the newspapers to get it all wrong. He was pulling the rowboat behind his car. But he didn't run the ligh...
Sunday, May 20, 2007

GOOD GRIEF

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by Charles Frederickson Mother Universe grieving lost sons         Eerie cries bewailing inconsolable sadness                 Dispirited glo...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

COOKING UP A POLICE STATE

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by Earl J. Wilcox Ingredients : One U S President. One Chief of Staff Andrew Card. One Absent Yet Present Vice-President. One First-Term Whi...
Friday, May 18, 2007

THE ONE-ARMED ECONOMIST

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by Charles Reynard "Give me a one-armed economist!" --Harry S. Truman When they spoke of predators, prisoners (and their dilemmas)...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

THE DARK MATTER WITH THE WHITE HOUSE

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by James Penha "Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter . . . The ring's ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

FOR IMUS

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by Noah C. Renn Some people still drive wedges, chop wood, incinerate for their own warmth. Those on sallow roads, jingling like chains or p...