They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

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

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add