During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...