Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

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

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.