Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,