Sleep by the Sea
Sleep by the sea. Dream a time of Little Bighorn. Historical signage. Untended grass land. Burial ground. Further the fence. Hills roll. Memory of you. Sleep by the sea. Grassy corridors. Inactive shooters. Historic...
Author: John P. O'Grady
The Garden: State of Limited Access
Once upon a time, yesterday maybe, having taken that journey on “tomorrow’s highway today.” Entry ramp. A means of departure. Tollbooths. Tractor trailers. State troopers. Riled motorists. Jet planes flying low over phragmites. Haste...
Transcript of a Medium’s Message
Last evening was the annual Christmas “Psychic Dinner” down the mountain at the Moon-in-a-Dewdrop Inn. I’ll bet they saw you coming, you say, but we go every year. Think this stuff is all a...
On Labels
Today at a supermarket in the Catskill Mountains I saw a bottle of vegetable juice adorned with remarkable labeling: “100% Juice with Added Ingredients.” What manner of adjective is this percent? I wasn’t totally...
Beauty Bare
This blazed path. Lovely winter light, clotting shade. Rusted border, collapsing fence. Gap in the grammar of the woods. Fallen limbs beyond memory. Forgiving duff and stone. Spare fading lines. Both ends tangled not....
A Tale of Urgent Care
“There, now that didn’t hurt a bit, did it? Would you like to see your blood?” She holds up a vial. “No, that’s okay. I’ll faint.” “Would you like a glass of water?” “Yes.”...
House Hunting
On a lark ventured into the exclusive listing of self—many rooms, musty cellar, dusty attic, cobwebs everywhere, sheets thrown over ugly furniture, sullen portraits beyond living memory and dour landscapes crooked with time on...
For the Record
“Each one,” they told us, and there were too many to count, “stands for something in the real world.” Meanwhile our milk was spoiling in cartons kept in stale cloakrooms. That was a long...
Commonweal
One time in college I drove my 1973 VW Beetle home from Maine to New Jersey on the day before Thanksgiving and got stuck in evening traffic along the Mass Pike between Auburn and...
Your Journey
Somewhere between elsewhere there’s an inside for an outside or nowhere or all. Might happen anywhere.