Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

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

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

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

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust