Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

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

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth