During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

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,

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian