Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

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

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.