After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

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…

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

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

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken