You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

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

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,