He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.