Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...