Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

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

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy