Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
