a haiku
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
