moving away from the common sterotypes

access to a network of over one hundred fifty local chapters

these people often feel alone

identified as ground zero in the culture war

the opinions of many influenced

hear it as wind as vehemence as anxious silence

shaking sticks and shaking fists and shaking

directing field operations for a statewide coalition

on pages torn from a paper notebook

the policeman working the intersection has put on his raincoat with its pointy hood

she had felt sorry for them yet they were not quite real

poring over the correspondence of scientists who rattled off informal letters like we send emails

to the contrary the company insists the town is perfectly safe

a cleverly designed basket that mounts easily to most any rear rack

impassioned yearning and the cold indifference of your response

he's an odd duck my uncle said to my mother

their passports and ID cards were checked against special lists

he thought of his latest poem about two old people and their love gone wrong

a degree of disillusionment with this project sets in when we get past the cute title

killers who make literary allusions women in peril and cinematic stabs at heightening the style

only a small portion of these cases target powerful entities

stopped by the same police car your eleven-year old son had admired at the min-mart

tucked away in the wilderness seven hours east of the deepest gorge

discounted frequently as noise it becomes the story worth telling

drawing board dreaming

it's gratifying that his 30-year-old theory has finally been observed

until that point advocacy groups had functioned much like other groups

maybe our glorious fantastic universe arose from nothing at all

free to come and go to stray out of the circle of light and definition

if you don't expect to make the right choice this magic will never happen

the raw material seized and shaping it to maximum advantage