I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

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...

No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

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

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.