Between the By-Road and the Main Road

Storm on the Rhine (M.A.Reilly, 2019) I. Night has come on and Basel has grown quiet. In the distant, a siren sounds—familiar across...

For 3-5 Years Old  Browne, Mahogany L. (2018). Woke Baby . Illustrated by Theodore Taylor, III. New York: Roaring Brook Press. Holub...

Detail from Pablo Picasso’s “Crouching Woman.” I spent several minutes in front of this painting feeling the heaviness of her shadowed ...

Prayer (M.A.Reilly) Happiness There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back...

Easter (M.A. Reilly, 2019) Auden in Sonnet XVIII wrote, “We envy streams and houses that are sure...” I read the sonnet, in the Shos...

“And Full of Sleep” (M.A. Reilly) I opened an email and read a new comment about a post written several years ago about art, affinity...

Once at Grand Central (M.A. Reilly) I.  "Hun? Could you read your section of the paper and let me read mine?" I ask Rob ...