Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

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

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...