Posts by Ed
Herculean
For years I’ve toiled,
I’ve worked the earth.
Well, I’ve worked on the earth,
pushing a mower over
a puny patch of grass.
Haiku
A poem and a lesson.
Read MorePoet Reading at the Phoenix Public Market
The poet leans into the microphone,
begs to be heard over the bawling blues
on the crackling speakers from the
Jamaican barbecue food truck,
can’t turn the music down or sales might sag.
Callie and Jesse
I wake up and her face is right up against mine, not touching but real close. I had that dream again, she says. The one with your mama. I roll away and squint in the dark for the time. 4:12. Yeah? I say. She wants more, but my head is thick. Can you tell me…
Read MoreGordie and Meredith
The first scene in the novel (at the moment), introducing two of the three main characters.
Read MoreMeredith and Annie
An excerpt from early in the novel featuring Meredith and her party friend Annie, and the first hint of complication.
Read MoreLee
In this early scene from the novel, we meet Meredith’s dad and Gordie’s grandfather, working alone in his shop, distracted by the thoughts stirred within him by the onset of fall.
Read MoreMeredith Tells Annie
Wherein Meredith confides in Annie, and the rising action of the novel is set in motion.
Read MoreMeredith and Sharla
An unusually cold day in early autumn compounds Meredith’s misery, as she faces one of the more malevolent characters in the novel.
Read MoreGordie and Meredith scene 2
Meredith tells Gordie her plan.
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