Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…