The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

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

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

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,