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The Flower Shop

William Baer

Ducking inside, escaping the thundershowers, you see her surrounded with color-mad displays of roses, tulips, lilies, mysterious flowers, blooming plants, and wildly-fragrant bouquets. “What are these?” you stupidly smile...

The Widow of Niam

William Baer

I follow the rank corpse, holding my breath, prepared to bury my son forevermore; a widow left with nothing, nothing but death, who prays, but doesn’t know what she’s...

December

William Baer Fra Cesare Angelini (1887-1976)

December, the month of that most holy day, which makes Christian even the falling snow. (In whispers, the winds tell everything they know to the forest and the pebbles...