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

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has