At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,