In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror