You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

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

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh