Stupid Kid Trick Hurricane Carol hit Cape Cod in the late summer of 1954, when I was twelve years old, and the power went out for two days. At first, the “groan-ups” at the big summer house in Quissett rather enjoyed the novelty of playing backgammon and bridge by candlelight, as they got hammered on
Compensation A tree gets killed. Men in a hurry finds its heart and cut it apart. Down it dies through the green and golden halls, heavy as myth, and injures the earth, falling. The chainsawyers snarl into the corpse and snag on the dryad sleeping inside. The woods boss himself lifts her out while the
A pilgrim had traveled all over the world searching for an enlightened sage who could tell him the meaning of life. Time after time he had been disappointed. Some of the sages were charlatans who wanted money, some had refused to talk to him because he was a foreigner, and some had given up talking
The Right Way, The Wrong Way, and The Army Way Sergeant Johnston got word from the commanding officer of his training platoon that one of his troops, Private Riley, had lost his mother in a car accident. “Break it to him gently, Sergeant,” the CO said. Sergeant Johnston ordered the platoon to assemble outside their
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I am sitting here. There is a tree. It has No expectations.
Late August Fire in the evening. Above the dying hemlocks, Sun sets in splendor.
Sitting Quietly What the hemlocks know They tell the wind, and the wind May tell you. Be still.
The Bloody Sire It is not bad. Let them play. Let the guns bark and the bombing-plane Speak his prodigious blasphemies. It is not bad, it is high time, Stark violence is still the sire of all the world’s values. What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? What