Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.