Pecanland Mall: Monroe, Louisiana
God’s Infidels we drive to Pecanland on Sunday morning everyone else is in church it’s the new blockbuster Star Trek into Darkness purchase tickets wait… Read More »Pecanland Mall: Monroe, Louisiana
God’s Infidels we drive to Pecanland on Sunday morning everyone else is in church it’s the new blockbuster Star Trek into Darkness purchase tickets wait… Read More »Pecanland Mall: Monroe, Louisiana
Earl’s Half & Half was located at the border between Louisiana and Arkansas. The liquor half was in the state of Louisiana, and the grocery… Read More »The Half & Half
He floats in my dreams like debris from a Shreveport wreck, and in a last ditch effort to ban his jetsam from washing up on… Read More »Creation of the Golem
Walk down the hill from the Historic Mayfair Hotel, the room is clean and the water hot, costs less than other places, forget about getting… Read More »A Congress of Poets
I want to wake up each morning without remembering your voice, how we used to wrap around together in one invisible seam, a velcro from… Read More »Wandering in the Desert
The way forward is with a broken heart. –Alice Walker (With thanks to Elizabeth Bishop, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Sinatra and W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan)… Read More »Mortal
I’m not proud about online dating. Why would I want to brag about trying to find loving companionship after searching through profiles and photographs and exchanging emails… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (10)
I scrubbed each kitchen tile with vinegar, doused stainless steel appliances with cleaner to remove all streaks, lemon-oiled the two halves of the dining room table and… Read More »Darkness Simmers Beneath My Surface
This is from my novel-in-progress, Pulp Into Paper. Brenda Shawn trained her flashlight on the ground and landed in the water on something soft and… Read More »From Pulp Into Paper
Louisiana bayou, you are a collection basket for Mother Nature’s hand-me-downs.