Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
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…
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
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
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,