Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…