Tag: death

I wake with some aches dreading the jobs of the day before my coffee. Sitting up against the big pillows, hearing the shower sound of my early-morning wife, I s

His hair is spiked by the hospital bed, with oxygen mask straps haltered there, a Roman soldier from Spartacus . He moves only his eyes like a downed horse who

When I was drafted out of college, and Americans were dying at a fierce rate in Korea, and Truman’s War put the President in political hot water, and my father