Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.