twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

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

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.

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

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

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand