They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
