Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,
Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
