. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the One who with a single thought filled the universe, God of the Exodus and the empty tomb: In the year...

. In Vietnam, skinny Alvin carried an M60 machine gun weighing 25 pounds and humped over a thousand miles. I remember his letters from the b...

. ............... day’s end . . . ........ the dog pokes his bowl .......... for something to eat “Not yet,” I tell him. Movement in the kit...

. tin cans rattling in a bag—the music of Paradise I'd been retired for a month and it was time to arrange for the payout of those speci...

. It's true — a snowflake screams as it enters water. . George had read my haibun about the dish at Arecibo that listens to the stars. ...

. In Memory of LaDona Valencia Cook . This place she loved above all others on the coast, at this same time of year, the fall. We came each...

. Dolores rose early and, careless about buttoning up the front of her sky-blue house coat, under which she wore nothing, primped her small ...

. ..... 1 heat lightning . . . ........................ all the way into Mexico ........... the mountains rise That was an omen, but we did ...

I let my eyes and hands run over the tools he had used—the trowel, the spade, the mulching fork. I gazed at the few remaining tin pails, ena...

For the time being, well past noon, God, I ask that you above all leave me alone, that I might just sit here in the leaf shade, beside the w...

. The only time I saw her face in twenty years as her neighbor was on that one day in October when she failed to retrieve the morning newspa...

The hot, dry Santa Anas blew until mid-afternoon, scouring the air and drawing new lines of dust on every windowsill. Then the winds ceased ...

. 1 I found myself back on robbery-homicide, partnered with Brick Landers, the summer Brick broke his neck on what at first we all thought w...