Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard