After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

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

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.