a haiku
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees