In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
