twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

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

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than