There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

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…

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills