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,

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

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.

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

“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

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people