Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
