We don't have to crop a Vivian Maier      photograph, to pare it to essentials.      We just have to look at it. How...

   and we were here to see    the end of unanswerable     government in this land Car...

      How tiresomely, it never fails.       The moment we launch an entry       tending to challenge the regime       in po...

    Been waitin',      Ma'am. Stephen Crowley, photograph United States House of Represen...

      I looked along the bar      And saw my fellow creature      Bravely standing there.      "By word, sign, or touch,...

I remember distinctly the sud denness with which a key turned in a lock and I found I could read .. All a long summer holiday I kept my ...

   He called to ask me if I still    believed in the existence of     Cetera, because at my age the    promises of Et must h...

I think a scan of precedents will find that my custom of reading in John Dryden on Christmas Eve has been inspired by his brilliant  tr...