Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

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

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

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

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

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

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

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

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings