Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

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.

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

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.

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again