You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

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

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

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

I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

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

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

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

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

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

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...