He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

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…

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

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…