Monarchs Like gray haired first graders, They sit all in a line in their small chair desks, silent and alone, under the stale blue fluorescence …
Mark Hinkley

Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation
The Literary Heart of Indian River County
Monarchs Like gray haired first graders, They sit all in a line in their small chair desks, silent and alone, under the stale blue fluorescence …
COVID Calendar The Sierra Club calendar lies open on my desk— a Sandhill crane and her chick opposite a page of lined empty spaces. On …
In the Valley of April Oh you pity the dead, the unintended lucky dead, who lay in their makeshift morgues, quiet now outside their cottoned …
Waiting for the Coronavirus Wave When I consider how my light is spent Within these four walls, inside this world so wide, And my compassionate …
A Time Like This I never want to forget those twenty-six hours you last came home- The soft knock on my bedroom door at five …