—------- His room had been turned into a hospital room. The man lay in his bed with an oxygen pump beside him. A niece was staying with...

When I was a kid at Rosary School in near north Oklahoma City in the 1970’s, we were fortunate enough to be taught by who were for the...

I grew up in the Gatewood neighborhood in Oklahoma City but it wasn’t in the middle of regentrification back then (1970’s). It was lower...

I worked at the old Sears on 23rd and Penn in Oklahoma City during the mid 80’s. Rumor had it that on the third floor was a bordello for...

White would leave his office at twilight and go to meet Atalanta at the interurban's depot. Atalanta supported her father by teaching at...

In The Great Gatsby, mobster Meyer Wolfsheim wore cufflinks made from human molars. Just to set the scene. I now realize that when I...

I was a kid at St Francis, that downtown parish founded in the early 20th century originally a mission church to the whole Indian...

I do not have a mission anymore, No raison d'etre or great quest. I'm counting on the Divine Physician to restore My compass to true...

copyright 2022, Paul Hawkins 1933, the John L. Sullivan Lounge of the Hotel Roosevelt, San Juan, the Philippines. "Ooh, I want the...

"If we say that Atticus Finch meets Gatsby in a tale told by L. Frank Baum, it's not to decry the originality of this book, but only to...

copyright 2011, Paul Hawkins Truth and Word restored the end to means. The Past, suspended, held without decay. Delay replaced diversion,...

White would leave his office at twilight and go to meet Atalanta at the interurban's depot. Atalanta supported her father by teaching at...

https://artmuseum.arizona.edu/events/event/19th-century-landscape-the-pastoral-the-picturesque-and-t I have been reading about the...

I had to cut this out of "Angels and Electrons" because it interrupted the pacing, but I like it. I wrote it in 2012 but as always I was...

Dedication: To the memory of my father Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---...

Thinking of this while driving this evening, from my Sub-suburbs Tale. It’s actually a pretty funny novel, but it’s also got to stick to...

A tyrant of a cruel, hot land Would hold his audience, and to each supplicant command he bow before a den of snakes, and leaving –...

Reworked a little: St Michaelmas Poem Reworked a little: St Michaelmas Poem on the evening of st michaelmas the light will cause a silver...

Thief Supplement the science with belief Acknowledge law-like certitude yet trust the thief to know what things are valuable and take the...

In the manner of William Blake: “An angel rides Earth like a chariot, its sphere enfolded in his wings, and steers it towards oblivion...