With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

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

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…