Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
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
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it
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…
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…