He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
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…
Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
