It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
