The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

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

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...