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

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

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

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

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,

No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....