Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

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

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

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

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...