A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
