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

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

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…