a haiku
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew