Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

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

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia