She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails