Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

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

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

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

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...