I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
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
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
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 should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken