Go, Amber!

Amber Yoder is working with Respect! Films on a documentary about the life of Grant Morrison.  In case I haven’t mentioned it a hundred times already, Amber is my amazing daughter.  Grant Morrison is well known as a comic book writer.  I am just learning about him, and he seems like an interesting person.  No [...]

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She Came In The Wind

Genevieve, Born During A Hurricane . Julie Buffaloe-Yoder Back then, they had the predictions of women. . The smell of wind, expanding clouds. The drop of pressure deep in their bones. . She was due to arrive in that season of heat. Brown calico curtains had slapped for days. . The women felt her in [...]

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Unbroken Notes

. The Dying Song Julie Buffaloe-Yoder . We brought him home in a Hospice van, unplugged the wires and made a bed of mossy pine by the salt sweet shore. Downwind of his huge and fertile garden, he slowly bloomed inward, while we held his hand beneath a live oak tree, wiped his lips with [...]

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Hanging On

Miss Fish Refuses To Evacuate Julie Buffaloe-Yoder . …..Miss Fish sits on the roof.  She is seventy-five-years old and hanging onto shingles.  The water is now above her windows.  It is hot, and the sun threatens to shine.  She wears a red bandana as a kerchief.  It flaps in the stiff afternoon breeze.  Her black [...]

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The Dead Mule

Two of my poems, Lessons in Genetics and They Called Him Cap’n Glass, are published at The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.  You can see the poems by clicking HERE. I love The Mule!   Stick around and read it all. Cap’n Glass is based on a real person who was a colorful soul. In [...]

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