Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
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
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
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...
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
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,
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers