Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

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

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back