Adam & Eve Discuss Retirement
After Adam and Eve got expelled from the garden, there was no more low-hanging fruit to pick from the Tree. Anyhow, there was no need to pick because they’d already figured out that they weren’t going to live in a perfect world. In this imperfect world as soon as they touched a branch, berries no […]
Walmart is a Big Box
I made a pilgrimage to the heartland of Walmart in Bentonville, the same day the conclave of cardinals named a new pope. White smoke rose up from the Sistine Chapel. Along the highway, an egret or a plastic bag? I remember John’s Bargain Store on Soundview Avenue, a place with cheap stuff stacked in plastic […]
To One Young Enough to be in a Car Seat
Always dangle tangerine peels over your brother’s head until he agrees to roll down the window. Always keep a small house in the kitchen where ants can tell each other stories about the worms they’ve run into, a place with an umbrella to protect them as they gather bread, honey, and all the dinner you […]
The Land of Silence
This is a story about Randy and June, who lived in the Land of Silence. Every day they walked five miles outside the city to pick walnuts from the walnut trees, which is how they got enough to eat. But in order to have a cot to sleep on and a well to wash their […]
God’s Knock Knock Joke
Some kind of a joke, to allow me to find love half-way across the country. His arms? His lips? Give me a break. On Skype? For years I waited for someone until my room grew dark. Any silk clothes I shoved to the back of my closet. Maybe you’re getting a kick out of this. I’m […]