Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.