Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me