a haiku
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
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.
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him
