Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has
Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice
